Easy Money | | Cast : | Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci | | Director : | James Signorelli | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 19, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | April 02, 2002 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | November 18, 2004 | | Summary | What's The Word...Class | Content
 | The late great Rodney Dangerfield appeared in three really great films during his career. My all time favorite movie of his is without question Caddyshack. Next up is Back To School--To be followed up closely by Easy Money. All three of these performances from Dangerfield are howlingly funny and helped to ensure his comedic legacy for generations to come.
In Easy Money, Monty Capuletti has some real nice incentive to reform his reputation as a total schlep. if he can give up all of his vices for a year, he'll receive a fortune from his late mother-in-law. But Clive (Jeffrey Jones), the man who oversees the mother-in-law's store, will do whatever it takes to stop Monty from inheriting the company. Monty enlists his pal Nicky's (Joe Pesci) help in coping with the loss of booze, cigarettes and poker -- but between his daughter Allison's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) marriage to a punk named Julio (Taylor Negron) and Clive's underhanded tricks, the challenge may be tougher than Monty realizes.
Directed by James Signorelli, from a script by Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P.J. O'Rourke and Dennis Blair, the film has plenty to like and laugh over. Dangerfield's cinema classics have one common denominator--Easy Money is no exception--a great "sparing partner" Jones as the smarmy Clive is just pitch perfect. This role put Jones in training for his turn in Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the principal. The teaming of Dangerfield and future Goodfella Pesci is about as good as it gets. As the pair plot to one up Clive at every turn things get more outrageous by the minute. Rodney's trademark zingers are here as well.
The DVD's only extra is the theatrical trailer. (...) |
| Rating | | | Date | October 06, 2004 | | Summary | Classic Rodney! (R.I.P) | Content
| This is one of those movies I saw a million times on HBO as a kid. My mother and I would laugh like hyenas. Anytime we'd heard a crying baby, we'd say "Somebody, anybody, please shut that little b*stard up!". Even though this film did not do well at the box office, I thought it was much better than "Back To School". Regarding the reviewers comments about that missing scene . . . I thought I had dreamed that up. I regret getting rid of my old VHS copy! Anyway, a LOT of great laughs in this one. THANK YOU, RODNEY! WE LOVE YOU! |
| Rating | | | Date | October 06, 2004 | | Summary | One of Rodney's best. | Content
| This movie is hilarious! From the get-go, it had me rolling
around laughing! One of Rodney's best!
The movie also stars Joe Pesci as Nicky the Plumber.
(my first film I ever saw him in.)
Some great quotes include...
Nicky and Monte, at Monahans department store:
"How long do you intend to browse?"
"Hey, that lady over there, you didn't ask her how long she intends to browse.
How come you're asking us, how long we intend to browse?"
"You don't look like browsers."
"What do browsers look like?"
"Maybe I'm half-browser."
"On his father's side."
Nicky and Monte, upstairs, with the board of directors of
Monahans. Monte, has just been offered a top job, as
Fashion Consultant, and Nicky says:
"No no, take the job, take the job. The first thing we'll do
is fire that broad downstairs, who stopped us from browsing."
Nicky, explaining to Monte, how to get to New York Harbor
from Florida:
"You steam north up the Atlantic, west into the Hudson...
you come to the statue of that broad, you hang a left...."
Monte, in his basement with his poker buddies, after dinner with his family:
"So what did you tell her today."
"I said her perfume was driving me crazy. I said you'd think I married Rose to get to you...
My mother-in-law...For years I wouldn't kiss her face-I ended up kissing her ass!"
Hilarious! A must see!
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| Rating | | | Date | August 18, 2004 | | Summary | Missing Footage! | Content
| Years ago I was in stitches watching Rodney Dangerfield's performance in Caddyshack after that I hired Easy Money on vhs and that was just as good. So I bought it on dvd and was shocked to see that one of the best scenes of the film had been cut out. It's in the peak of his "rehabilitation" from drugs, booz, gambling and fast/fatty foods. He is at a boxing match and everyone around him including his mates are drinking, smoking and eating their hearts out and it gets to him so much he sees himself as one of the men in the boxing ring getting pounded on. It's quite a long scene and snippets of this footage are on the trailer on the dvd yet not in the film itself. It's a great scene and I don't know why they cut it out. 5 stars with the scene and 4 stars without it! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 22, 2004 | | Summary | DANGERFIELD AT HIS VERY BEST!!! | Content
| Caddyshack not withstanding, I have always thought that "Easy Money" was Rodney Dangerfields funniest movie. Rodney plays Monty, a family man living in suburban New York. He's a baby photographer who drinks, smokes, gambles, and eats too much. His best friend is Nicky, played hilariously by Joe Pesci. Monty's wife is the daughter of a wealthy shopping mall owner. When her mother dies in a tragic plane crash, Monty stands to inherit millions...But ONLY if he can give up smoking, drinking, gambling and lose weight for one year. Prior to this is an outrageous night on the town the night before his daughters wedding. The next day at church, the hung over Monty has no water to take his asprin..until he spies the holy water and scoops a handful out! After getting the news of his inheritance terms, Monty now has to struggle giving up his vices, while being constantly surrounded by temptations. Most of the temptations come via his scheming brother in law played by Jeffrey Jones who inherits the money if Monty fails. Hilarious scenes where Monty and his friends go the the race track and Nicky attacks a jockey who threw a race...Later nicky and Monty drive all over town, drunk and trying to find a place to eat. They pull up to a place as they are just closing, with a sign saying "open 23 hours". Later Nicky and Monty go to the mall that he will inherit and generally harass the prim and proper employees and customers. Very funny movie. Too bad there's nothing in the way of special features. Vastly underrated. One of the great comedies of the 1980's. The only weak part of the film is the sub-plot of Monte's daughter played by Jennifer Jason Leigh's marriage and separation to Julio. That kind of bogged down the comedy at times. |
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