The Money Pit | | Cast : | Tom Hanks, Shelley Long | | Director : | Richard Benjamin | | Studio : | Universal Studios Ho | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 26, 1986 | | DVD Released Date : | March 04, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | SCENES MISSING | Content
 | I love this movie, but in the DVD version there are some scenes that are missing. The entire sequence where they spend there first night in the house and actually break the step is totally left out! Also the scene with the trees falling is cut short. Those were the two I noticed but there may be more. Why do studios do this? It is a total letdown to fans. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2005 | | Summary | So accurate, it could clasify as a "documentary"! | Content
| Overall this picture is a must watch for anybody considering major home renovations, or just needing to laugh out loud.
Working with contractors on a scale such as this movie portrays can be an experience of a lifetime. The accuracy of the characters and the shenanagins that can occur was so real, that this picture could also be considered a doumentary. It had to be based on someone's personal experience.
A good preview for anyone looking to purhase and rehab a "fixer upper" aka handyman specials. Entertaining and Educational!
stan@landlordsdontgobroke.com |
| Rating | | | Date | January 24, 2005 | | Summary | if you wanna laugh your [....] | Content
| rent this. You will be having some serious belly laughs. Tom Hanks and Shelly Long buy a house that turns out to be a TOTAL lemon. Everything goes wrong. I love this movie because even tho things constantly go wrong for the main characters, the movie doesn't become a totaly unhappy drag like all those Ben Stiller comedies, especially 'Meet The Parents'. I hate flicks like MTP because they seem just so mean spirited. Flicks like that become hard to watch, for me, because while all these tragic things are going wrong, there are not enough GOOD, STRONG JOKES, to ease the suffering I as the audience am experiencing along with the main character. There has to be a balance. The Money Pit gets it just right. It's got strong, genuinely funny dialogue, awesome, hilarious slapstick, pratfalls, and a really satisfying ending. Plus, you remember the Long Blond Haired Bad Guy from the first Die Hard flick? He's in this as an orchestra director / Shelly Longs ex husband and he is HILARIOUS. Anybody should rent this flick. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 08, 2004 | | Summary | Such a hilarious movie! | Content
| I have seen this movie several times and it is ranked one of my top 10 all time favorites. Tom Hanks does an excellent job expressing himself. I laugh out loud every time I watch this movie. His laugh is so contagious especially in the bathtub scene, one can't help but to laugh along with him. This movie is an excellent film for the whole family, one that stands the test of time. Buy it, watch it, memorize it! |
| Rating | | | Date | October 30, 2004 | | Summary | It's all about Commitment! | Content
| I absolutely adored this movie. I am normally not a fan of movies where everything goes completely wrong for the decent, "good" characters of the film, but this one had a meaningful plot in which hit me each and everytime something terrible happened to Tom Hanks' character and his girlfriend in their new LEMON house. It was all about commitment. They had every right to be screaming and yelling at each other for getting into the situation that they were in. Yet, the didn't. They stood by each other when the bathtub (and the bed) fell through the floor, the kitchen blew up, the roof leaked, the staircase crashed and so on. The only thing that damaged their relationship was when Tom Hank's girlfriend told him that she slept with her ex-husband. Which is completely understandable. Being a woman, that would be the one thing that I couldn't forgive the man that I was with, for doing. However, regardless of that, they realized that being together was more important than not being together. All of this takes place as their "lemon" house is being rebuilt. As is their relationship. The writers of "The Money Pit" are intelligent and remarkable and have my complete confidence and respect. |
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