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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783141862
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783141866
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 56805
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
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Five college buddies fired from their summer jobs start a moving business together. But faced with ruthless loan sharks and brutal rivals, the boys soon find they have more on their hands than other people's furniture. Paul Reiser stars in this remarkably 'moving' and hilarious comedy.
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Rating:  - One of my favorite obscure movies!
Let me start this off by saying Odd Jobs in NOT a film for everybody. If you like very wacky comedies and don't mind your humor being dumb, you may enjoy Odd Jobs. The charm of the film is difficult to describe, as the story is rather absurd, the situations are ridiculous, the writing is unsophisticated, and the characters are one-dimensional. Put all those together in this right combination though, and you get a very funny and memorable movie. The hightlights of Odd Jobs are Jake Steinfeld (the Body By Jake guy) as a villanous yet funny henchman, and Leo Burmeister as Wylie, a redneck greasy trucker with a heart of gold. The cast of comedians each has a distinct character, and each has several funny scenes to shine in.
If you like Monty Python wackiness, and you like Airplane! type dumb yet funny comedy, give Odd Jobs a try. You may find a hidden comedy treasure.
Rating:  - "Now remember, Cabrizzi rhymes with sleazy."
Here's an idea...let's a get group of moderately well known comedians, dump them in a low budget comedic vehicle with a really skimpy plot and even skimpier script (allowing for the comedians own material to fill in the bare spots) and see what happens...that seems to have been the idea behind the feature Odd Jobs (1986), at least as far as I could tell. Co-written by Robert Conte and Peter Martin Wortmann, both of who would go on to write the movie Who's Harry Crumb? (1989), which I thought was infinitely funnier than this film, and directed by Mark Story, in his one and only film to date, the movie features Paul Reiser (Diner, "Mad About You"), Robert Townsend (I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka), Paul Provenza (Survival Quest), Rick Overton (Gung Ho, Willow), and Scott McGinnis (Joysticks, Making the Grade). Also appearing is Leo Burmester (Cruising, The Abyss), Thomas Quinn (Turk 182!), Julianne Phillips (Fletch Lives), Richard Dean Anderson ("MacGyver", "Stargate SG-1"), and Jake Steinfeld (The Money Pit, Tough Guys), probably better known to many as the `Body by Jake' guy.
As the movie begins we meet five college students/frat brothers named Max (Reiser), Dwight (Townsend), Roy (Overton), Byron (Provenza), and Woody (McGinnis). Anyway, as classes break for the summer, the guys go their separate ways, all taking on odd jobs...Max gets work with a mobbed up moving company, Dwight and Byron become caddies at a posh golf course, Roy takes a door to door salesman gig peddling nuclear powered ... Read More
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