1982
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 30 m

1982
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 30 m

Summary Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady dudes - Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong). Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.

Directed By: Thomas K. Avildsen

Written By: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong

1982
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 30 m

1982
R
Columbia Pictures
1 h 30 m

Things Are Tough All Over

Name: Things Are Tough All Over
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: 1982-08-04
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Rating: 40
Cast: Toni Attell, Mike Bacarella, Billy Beck, Don Bovingloh, Richard 'Moon' Calhoun

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Thomas K. Avildsen

Written By: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

17% Positive
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33% Mixed
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50% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

17% Positive
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The New York Times

Cheech and Chong have a good time with Things Are Tough All Over, and you will, too.

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Washington Post

Even the premise for this sputtering attempt at a picaresque farce seems to anticipate a vehicle prone to misfires and breakdowns. [12 Aug 1982, p.E1]

By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW

TV Guide Magazine

The jokes tossed into this feeble effort involve Cheech and Chong in drag, herpes, and an S&M porno adventure featuring the comedians' real-life spouses Shelby Fiddis and Rikki Marin.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

With Things Are Tough All Over their once well-oiled comedy has rusted firmly into place. Now, the erstwhile darlings of the counter-culture seem about as raucously rebellious as a senescent Lucy Ricardo. [2 Aug 1982]

By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW

Newsweek

It's a shaggy-dog road movie, with all the team's usual ingredients but one -- it's not funny. There's no fresh insight in Things Are Tough All Over, little of their surrealist pothead non sequiturs, and to see them through, they've begun to fall back on tired, conventional sight gags -- a car going through a carwash with its top down, Cheech hiding in a spinning laundermat dryer. [6 Sept 1982, p.75]

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Miami Herald

The climax of Things Are Tough All Over finds Cheech and Chong slouched in a seedy theater, watching themselves perform in a pornographic film with Rikki Marin and Shelby Fiddis, their real-life wives. Yuccchhh to you, too, fellas. [9 Aug 1982, p.3]

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Production Company C & C Brown Production, Columbia Pictures

Release Date Aug 4, 1982

Duration 1 h 30 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline A High Flying Comedy.

Website http://www.sonymoviechannel.com/movies/things-are-tough-all-over

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Toni Attell

Cocktail Waitress

Mike Bacarella

Cop in Laundromat

Billy Beck

Pop, Manager Red Wagon Adult Motel

Don Bovingloh

Maitre D'

Richard 'Moon' Calhoun

Drummer

Tommy Chong

Chong, Prince Habib

Jennifer Condos

Bass Player

John Corrona

St. Louis Biker

Dave Coulier

Man with Tongue in Restaurant

Shelby Chong

French Girl #1

Aaron Freeman

Cop in Ghetto

Mike Friedman

Car Rental Agent

Evelyn Guerrero

Donna, Cheech's Friend smuggling illegals

Maya Harman

Belly Dancer

Vanaghan S. Housepian

Henchman

Lance Kinsey

Plastic Surgeon

Janice Ladik

Mom in Laundromat

Jay Lawson

Gas Station Attendant

Cheech Marin

Cheech, Mr. Slyman, Narrator

Rikki Marin

French Girl #2

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