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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: July 30, 1982 |
Starring:
Basil Hoffman, Bobby Di Cicco, Clint Howard, Gina Hecht, Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Nita Talbot, Pat Corley, Shelley Long, Tim Rossovich
Summary:
A morgue attendant (Henry Winkler) is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.
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The largest shares of credit for this pleasant surprise evidently belong to director Ron Howard--whose assurance behind the camera may come as a revelation to people still associating him with the roles of little Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show" and clean-cut Richie on "Happy Days".
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Though the plotline hardly sounds like a family film, this is probably the most sanitized treatment of pimps and prostitution audiences will ever see. None of this much matters, because director Ron Howard and screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, all TV veterans, are only bent on giving the audience a good time.
This isn't much of a movie but it manages to be funny a good part of the time anyway.
Actually it's relatively clean, downright affirmative (the girls get insurance plans and 90 percent of the take) and resoundingly unfunny. [2 Aug 1982, p.63]
Mar 2, 2018
Michael Keaton's Jumping Jack Flash bit is timeless. It's probably the best role in his career. Hilarious film, and It was amazing seeing Winkler make his transformation here - esp after his long run as "The Fonz."
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