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An accountant with super bad luck is sent in search of a missing boss's daughter, also an incredibly unlucky person.An accountant with super bad luck is sent in search of a missing boss's daughter, also an incredibly unlucky person.An accountant with super bad luck is sent in search of a missing boss's daughter, also an incredibly unlucky person.
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- TriviaMartin Short sports red hair in this film rather than his natural dark brown hair he usually has. This stems from his work on "Clifford" for Orion Pictures which had been filmed around this time. Rather than change it from the dutch-boy hair cut featured in that film, he wore it in a perm instead to give it a wacky, unlucky look.
- GoofsWhen Eugene gets the car stuck in the sand on the side of the road, Raymond is pointing a gun at the guy who kidnapped Valerie. The gun changes from a Colt to a Baretta several times between shots.
- Quotes
Eugene Proctor: I am trained in martial arts. Judo, aikido, karate. The first thing they teach you is self-control. If someone calls you a jerk, you don't hit them. You just walk away.
Large Man: Jerk.
Eugene Proctor: ...Ah! See? Complete control.
Large Man: Moron!
[Eugene walks into a door]
Featured review
Wonderfully funny, slapstick adventure.
What has everybody got against this movie? It's damn funny! Martin Short and Danny Glover going over from NYC to Mexico to search for the accident-prone daughter of Short's big company boss Highsmith. Monosoft, played by the brilliant Harry Shearer, has the idea of sending Eugene Proctor (Short) to Mexico with detective Raymond Campanella (Glover). The jokes come thick and fast and, although sometimes predictable, the movie goes along fine with plenty of wonderful slapstick thrown in all over the place. Probably the funniest scene of Eugene inflating to twice his size because of a bee sting in the helicopter! All in all, this is not a movie to be taken too seriously! It's a funny, light-hearted film with plenty of action and comedy thrown in that will always entertain well for people of all ages.8/10
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- Jul 26, 2001
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Hoàn Toàn May Mắn
- Filming locations
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada(The scene in the beginning where they are driving over the granville bridge with the mountains & Bank of Montreal tower in the backround)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $17,010,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,641,969
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,010,810
- Aug 11, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $24,941,969
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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