Directed by:
Jerry ZuckerScreenplay:
Andy BreckmanCinematography:
Thomas E. AckermanComposer:
John PowellCast:
Breckin Meyer, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Dave Thomas, Amy Smart (more)VOD (2)
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A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an eccentric casino owner who devises a contest pitting six teams against each other in a race to claim two million dollars from a locker in New Mexico. The competitors are Owen (Cuba Gooding Jr., who ends up driving a bus full of Lucille Ball imitators, a foreigner (Rowan Atkinson) who hitches a ride in an organ donor vehicle, and a recently reunited mother and daughter (Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman) who anger a "squirrel lady" (Kathy Bates) -- much to their regret. There are also two con artist brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf), the upright Nick (Breckin Meyer), who gets a lift from cute but psychotic pilot Tracy (Amy Smart), and the eccentric Pear family, headed up by Jon Lovitz. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Deborah Theaker
Canada
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Richard Rossi
USA
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Joel Hurt Jones
USA
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Bart McCarthy
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Greg Bronson
USA
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Steve Harwell
USA
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Linda Kerns
USA
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Corinna Jones
West Germany
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Tristin Leffler
Canada
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Andrew Kavovit
USA
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Jared Van Snellenberg
Canada
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