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Director:
Paul Bartel
Writers (WGA):
Paul Bartel (story) &
Bruce Wagner (story) ...
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Release Date:
July 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Funny, surreal satire on the classes in L.A. more

Cast

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Jacqueline Bisset ... Clare Lipkin
Ray Sharkey ... Frank
Mary Woronov ... Lisabeth Hepburn-Saravian
Robert Beltran ... Juan

Ed Begley Jr. ... Peter
Wallace Shawn ... Howard
Arnetia Walker ... To-Bel
Paul Bartel ... Dr. Mo Van De Kamp
Paul Mazursky ... Sidney
Edith Diaz ... Rosa
Rebecca Schaeffer ... Zandra
Barret Oliver ... Willie Saravian
Jerry Tondo ... June-Bug

Susan Saiger ... Kelly
Michael Feinstein ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Australia:M

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Juan says he wants to "make the crossover" like Rubén Blades. This is a reference to Blades's movie, Crossover Dreams (1985), in which a smalltime Latin musician makes the crossover into major fame (and back again). more
Quotes:
To-Bel: [to her husband] He explored certain dark parts of my continent previously undiscovered by your feeble playwrightin' ass, I got to thinkin' he was Lewis *and* Clark. more
Soundtrack:
These Foolish Things more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Funny, surreal satire on the classes in L.A., 31 October 2002
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Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

Often laugh out loud funny play on sex, family, and the classes in Beverly Hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it's seen since the days of Granny and Jed Clampett. Plot centers on two chauffers who've bet on which one of them can bed his employer (both single or soon to be single ladies, quite sexy -- Bisset and Woronov) first. If Manuel wins, his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang -- if he loses, he must play bottom man to his friend!

Lots of raunchy dialogue, fairly sick physical humour, etc. But a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface. Bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy, teenaged niece on a year long "missionary trip" to Africa.

Hilarious fun.

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