Big Trouble (1986 film)

Big Trouble
Directed by John Cassavetes
Written by Warren Bogle
Starring Peter Falk
Alan Arkin
Beverly D'Angelo
Charles Durning
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography Bill Butler
Edited by Donn Cambern
Ralph E. Winters
Production
company
Delphi III Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
  • May 30, 1986 (1986-05-30)
Running time
93 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Big Trouble is a 1986 American comedy film. It was director John Cassavetes's last film. He took over from screenwriter Andrew Bergman (who was going to direct). The cast reunited Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, co-stars of The In-Laws, also featured Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning and Valerie Curtin.

The film's plot was so similar to that of Double Indemnity that, prior to production, Columbia Pictures was forced to trade the ownership of their unused script called Back to the Future with Universal Pictures (rights-holder for Double Indemnity) to reuse the plot of the earlier film.[1]

Plot

Leonard Hoffman is a Los Angeles insurance agent with a problem on his hands. He has teenage triplets who are all gifted musicians, but wife Arlene insists that the kids attend college at Yale, requiring more than $40,000 in tuition, rather than less expensive schools like nearby UCLA.

This situation is on Leonard's mind when he pays a business call to the Beverly Hills mansion of Steve and Blanche Rickey. He is met by a flirtatious and scantily clad Blanche, who explains a problem of her own—Steve is dying, with less than a week to live, but accidentally let his life-insurance policy lapse.

A scheme is hatched involving a policy with a double-indemnity clause. Steve has to die in an unexpected fashion for this to happen, but he may or may not cooperate.

Cast

References

  1. Fleming, Mike. "Blast from the past on "Back to the Future"". Deadline.com. Retrieved 22 October 2015.

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