A Fine Mess (1986)
- Starring:
- Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, (more)
- Director(s):
- Blake Edwards
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
- Category:
- Comedy
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Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a racetrack location with his pal Dennis, when he overhears two small-time thugs, Wayne "Turnip" Parragella (Richard Mulligan) and Maurice "Binky" Drundza (Stuart Margolin), talk about doping a horse set to run a race. It turns out that Turnip and Binky are under orders to carry out the dastardly scheme by their underworld boss Tony Pazzo (Paul Sorvino). When Spence and Dennis are found out, they find themselves pursued all over the Los Angeles area by an angry Tony Pazzo mob in an ever-escalating series of races and chases, crashes and smashes, and shouting and screaming. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 90 mins
Complete Cast:
- Ted Danson - Spence Holden
- Richard Mulligan - Wayne Turnip Farragalla
- Maria Conchita Alonso - Claudia Pazzo
- Paul Sorvino - Tony Pazzo
- Sharon Barr - Director's Wife
- Dennis Franz - Phil
- Arthur Hill
- Sharan Lea - Young Girl
- Larry Storch - Leopold Klop
- Vic Polizos - Detective Hunker
- Jack O'Leary - Piano Mover
- Keye Luke - Ishimine
- Jimmy Lewis - Detective Albert
- Garth Wilton - Houseman
- Doug Cox - Piano Mover
- Theodore Wilson - Covington
- Valerie Wildman - Anchorwoman
- Robert Hoy - Detective Levine
- Castulo Guerra - Italian Director
- James Cromwell - Detective Blist
- Howie Mandel - Dennis Powell
- Stuart Margolin - Maurice "Binky" Dzundza
- Jennifer Edwards - Ellen Frankenthaler
- Brooke Alderson - Aileen
- Walter Charles - Auctioneer
- Darryl Henriques - Landlord
- Sharon Hughes - Tina
- Emma Walton - Extra
- John Short - Assistant Director
- Rick Overton - Companion
- Tawny Moyer - Leading Lady
- Carrie Leigh - Extra
- John Davey - Detective Horn
- Shep Tanney - Dr. Henry Garfurg
- Jim Byers - Track Announcer
- Elaine Wilkes - Carhop
- Jeffrey Lampert - Car Salesman
- Ed Herlihy - TV Reporter
- Frederick Coffin - Traffic Cop
- Rick Ducommun - Wardell
- Director(s):
- Blake Edwards
- Writer(s):
- Norman Steinberg, Blake Edwards
- Producer(s):
- Jonathan D. Krane, Tony Adams
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Adult Language, Questionable for Children, Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Comedy
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