A Fine Mess

United States

1986

90 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 1.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Tony Adams, Trish Caroselli

CAST Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Edwards, Paul Sorvino, Rick Ducommun, Keye Luke, Ed Herlihy, Walter Charles, James Cromwell, Dennis Franz

ED John F. Burnett, Robert Pergament

Danson and Mandel play a pair of “kooky” best pals who discover that a certain horse has been drugged, so they bet on the race, win 10 grand, get chased by the gangster idiots who originally drugged the horse, and wind up accidentally bidding on an antique piano at a swanky auction house. Price of piano: 10 grand. Then we switch over to yet another chase-laden subplot in which our lead morons try to sell the piano to the mafia godfather who employs the other two gangster idiots. —DVDtalk.com

Director

Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards’ stepfather’s father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director, and his stepfather Jack McEdwards was a stage director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films, beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) and wrote a number of others, beginning with Panhandle (1948) and including six for director Richard Quine. He created the popular TV series “Peter Gunn” (1958), “Mr. Lucky” (1959) and “Dante” (1960). He directed a diverse body of films, from comedies to dramas to war films to westerns, including such pictures as Operation Petticoat (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Experiment in Terror (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). After The Great Race (1965) he began fighting with studios. In England he surfaced again with The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), then went back to Hollywood and a real hit, 10 (1979). Victor Victoria (1982) won him French and Italian awards for Best Foreign… read more