Big Trouble (2002)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers (WGA):

Dave Barry (novel)
Robert Ramsey (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

5 April 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

These people are in big trouble:

Plot:

The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.

Plot Keywords:

Airport | FBI | Black Comedy | Security Guard | Sniper

Cast

Tim Allen	...	Eliot Arnold
Rene Russo	...	Anna Herk
Stanley Tucci	...	Arthur Herk
Tom Sizemore	...	Snake Dupree
Johnny Knoxville	...	Eddie Leadbetter
Dennis Farina	...	Henry Desalvo
Jack Kehler	...	Leonard Ferroni
Janeane Garofalo	...	Police Officer Monica Romero
Patrick Warburton	...	Police Officer Walter Kramitz
Ben Foster	...	Matt Arnold
Zooey Deschanel	...	Jenny Herk
Heavy D	...	FBI Agent Pat Greer (as Dwight 'Heavy D' Myers)
Omar Epps	...	FBI Agent Alan Seitz
Jason Lee	...	Puggy
Sofía Vergara	...	Nina

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, crude humor and sex-related, material.

Runtime:

85 min | Turkey:74 min (TV version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 (VHS/DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 | Australia:M | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #38239) | Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

Touchstone Pictures

Trivia:

Patrick Warburton's line, "It's built by Ford now" in relation to the Jaguar automobiles, was also used in The Crew (2000/I). Barry Sonnenfeld suspects the line is cursed, as neither film did well at the box office.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The cockpit shots of one of the F-16s shows the control stick between the pilot's legs. In the F-16, the control stick is on the right side of the cockpit.

Quotes:

Henry Desalvo: [back at his table] You go tell your employer it's gonna cost him another 10 G's apiece.
His Boss: Okay. But we want this finished as soon as possible.
Henry Desalvo: Well, believe me, we don't want to spend anymore time in this garden spot than we have to.
Leonard: Got that right.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Soundtrack:

Macho Man

One of the funniest comedies ever made

I've seen it dozens of times, and still, I can't help myself but laugh my a** off... Incredibly bright, fresh collection of timeless jokes, gags, and funny situations cleverly bound together by one of Hollywood's most talented comedy directors into a flowing, easy, coherent piece of entertainment. This film's set must have been the most funny workplace ever... I wonder how the actors have managed to do the shooting, there must be tons of blooper reels in store... After reading some comments here, I really wish to have a chat with some of the people, who didn't find this movie funny... Or better - I'd like to know, what films they regard as being funny, if not "Big Trouble".

And my last remark - it's been a very long time since I've heard such a brilliant movie score as James Newton Howard had written for "Big Trouble". Excellent job.