When I was seven years old, my daddy caught me smoking a cigar.
Locked me in the Broomhausitor for three days and three nights with nothing but a
box of cigars and a book of matches. No food,
Brewster. No water. Just those goddamn cigars. Wouldn't let me out until I
finished every last one of them. Taught me one hell of a lesson.
I'm going to do to you what my daddy did to me.
I'm gonna teach you to hate spending money. I'm gonna make
you so sick of spending money that the mere sight of it'll make you want
to. So here's my
proposition. You have 30 days in which to spend
30 million bucks. If you can
do it, you get 300 million. There's gotta be a catch.
Of course there's a catch. You have to spend the 30 million.
But after 30 days, you're not allowed to own any assets.
No houses, no cars, no jewelry. Nothing but the
shirt on your back. Sounds easy,
don't it? Well, you'll find out.
It's two Dads, one Movie. It's the podcast where two middle aged
dads sit around and shoot the shit about the movies of the 80s and 90s.
Here are your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nick Brianna.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of two Dads,
one Movie. I'm Steve. And I'm Nick. And. And today we are Talking about the
1985 comedy classic Brewster's Millions.
Nick, this was your pick, so why don't you give us a little insight into
why we watched Brewster's Millions this week. Yeah. So this is one that
I remember liking and I think about it a lot.
I've seen it a few times, but not super recently. Okay.
But I do remember seeing this on TV as a kid and it was one
of these things that really kind of tickled my imagination at the age.
I saw it at like 7 or 8 years old. Just this idea of he
has to spend all this money and, you know, you get all these. These wild
things. I think that around the same time there was an episode
of the TV show Punky Brewster, okay, With the plot line and the
episode title was Brewster's Millions. And there was a similar thing. And it wasn't.
It was like, you know, $10,000 or something like that. Right. But she
ended up losing because Alan had received change when he bought a candy bar or
something, was still in his pocket. Totally over Punky Brewster. She couldn't buy matching shoes.
It was a nightmare. So, yeah, this movie, I thought
was just like a very fun movie, has a lot of people I liked in
it. Oh, yeah. A lot of people kind of not really doing what they're traditionally
doing because this is a much softer. Like, this is a soft pg.
This is a very like PG PG movie. It was so funny knowing that
it was 85 and that it was PG and that's sort of the time.
85, I think, is the year where we started seeing PG 13. Yeah. But we
also got. Maybe was 84, but it was right in that ballpark where we sort
of just had the transition. I thought was this. Is this a real pg?
Because I had never seen make sure Listener. You understand. I had never seen this
movie before. I've heard of it, obviously aware of its, you know, the concept.
But I'd never seen it. So I was like, it's the 80s. I literally was
waiting for the boobs to show up. Yeah. Every 80s movie felt like had some
gratuitous boob scene. Yeah, yeah. This one. But it's a pretty clean movie.
But I always just thought it was like an enjoyable thing. It was kind of
a fun thing to think about, like, what would I do in this situation?
Nice. And Richard Pryor is just. I just love the guy.
He just seems like such a. Just a good soul in real life,
despite the struggles that he went through and everything. So he's like a very sweet
guy in this movie. And that really comes across. So, yeah. Think it was just
like a really fun thing as a kid to think about. So I'm glad we
watched it again. How about. And you've never seen it. Yeah. So my wife's a
huge fan. She actually quotes. Not quotes the movie, but like, talks about this movie,
I guess in the context of like, there was a particular time in her life
where she had gotten sick and like, her dad put this on for her to
like, just, you know, hey, like, lay here, be sick, like, watch this movie.
And like, that's the kind of like, core memory you don't realize you're making when
you're making it. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, like 7ish years. Totally.
Or something. And so that's just always stuck with her as like, it's sort of
a comfort, you know, easy movie to watch. Sort of a comfort. And she and
I had just never. We've been together like 20 years. She just never, you know,
showed me this one. So I didn't really know what to expect. Going in my
Richard Prior sort of experience is like, hear no evil, see no evil Silver
Streak. You know, obviously he wrote. Co Wrote Blazing Saddles
and so those are the kind. That's the kind of humor I associate with.
Obviously, his standup is right. Very blue, like, not family friendly. And that's.
And I hadn't seen any of that in I saw this movie. So when I
saw his standup, I was like, holy crap. It was like seeing Bob Saget stand
up if you only knew him from Full House, you know. Totally. Yeah. Total world's
just apart, really. But, yeah, so I was excited to check it out. Obviously.
The funny part is I literally tried to go in with, like, no new knowledge.
Like, I looked some stuff up afterwards to sort of fill in some blanks and
make sure I had enough material, you know, to come here and talk. To.
Talk to you about it. But, like, I didn't know John Candy was in this.
Yeah. Until he, like, showed up. And I literally. Which is in the first,
you know, 90 seconds he's there playing catcher, and I'm just like, oh, that's so
awesome. It's John Candy. Yay. Because you can't have a bad time watching John Candy
is possible. Yeah. Cool. Well, let's. Do you want to jump into facts?
Yeah, let's hear some facts about this. All right, so Brewster's Millions, as we mentioned,
it is rated PG. It was released on May 22, 1985. That's a pretty solid
release slot. That's like Memorial Day weekend. Close to, you know,
usually running time of 102 minutes. Slightly on the longer side for
comedies, but I think the 80s had a lot of comedies that were more than
that. 85 to 90 that we got used to later on. Directed by Walter
Hill, written by George Barr McCutcheon, Herschel Wine, Grod and Timothy Harris.
Starring Richard Pryor and John Candy. The scores. This was surprising
to me. I was up after watching it. Rotten tomatoes,
39% from the critics. Yeah. Very rotten. That means, you know,
four out of 10, two out of five reviewers at the time gave it whatever
their equivalent of, like, a negative rating or score is. That's surprising to me.
The IMDb score, however, of 6.5, that me feels
way more accurate. That feels like, you know, it's just, you know, we'll get into
everything, but, like, it's not, like, a spectacular movie. Right. But it's clearly something that,
like, if it tickles your. Your. Your nostalgia bone, you know, you're gonna love
it. I feel like. Well, and like, you've talked about the Rotten Tomatoes score.
Seems like a product of the time the film came out. And IMDb is like,
history judging this Film like a more accurate view of that. Right. So like,
you can have adjustments to the Rotten Tomatoes critic score over time, but it would
require a professional critic to have a reason to go back and review the film
later. Right. Like an anniversary or something. And a film like this, I don't think
that would happen. It'd be one thing if like, you know, Jurassic park people go
back and actually review the original at some point, you know,
milestone anniversary. But this is probably like all
critics from 1985, I would guess. Yeah. Whereas yes, IMDb is like
a living score that changes over time. Budget $20 million actually like
fairly high. Yeah. I don't know how much of that was like, did they have
real cash in the, in the vault? And they had actually like have it sitting
there. But box office take was 45.8 million, which is a 2.29x
about 2.3 multiplier, which is like, you definitely call it a success. Not a
huge hit, not like a blockbuster. But this was a successful film. Yeah. Made the
people who made it money. You know, usually that's. That's all it takes to make
people go home happy on that side of things. But yeah, those are the facts
on Brewster's Millions. So. Okay, Nick, why don't you kick us off, man? What do
we open on? Yeah, so the movie opens up and we're
being shown kind of a rundown, like minor league baseball field with
an incredibly well attended though. Yeah, I will say,
like a lot of people in attendance for this game. This is the Hackensack Bulls.
They're playing in Hackensack, New Jersey. One of the features
actually plays a role in Major League Baseball history. I don't know if you know
this. In the middle of their outfield, there's a train track that just runs
through. So they'll have to stop the game for the train to go through.
The guys are tripping over it and falling and dying and getting hurt all the
time. That actually inspired that stupid fucking hill they put in the outfield in Houston.
Oh, there you go. Yeah, they were like, oh, we have a worse idea.
That's cool. And we're going to do that. Minute Maid park was not the first
one that they came. Or Enron Field back in the day, they used to call
it. It was not what came to mind. I was thinking this looked exactly like
the A's new park in Sacramento. This is exactly where they play, except there were
five times as many people in the crowd. So, yeah, it cost 400
bucks to get a train ticket to ride through the game. Bitter Ace fan,
people. We want him back.
So. So, yeah, this is Montgomery Brewster, Richard Pryor,
and then Spike, John Candy, who's the catcher.
Classic catcher physique for a film. You know, like, you know, he's going to be
goalie or catcher in anything he's. Or an umpire. That's about all he is a
good. Yeah, he's Enrico Palazzo.
So, yeah, it's just kind of showing this game happening. And Montgomery
Brewster's a relief pitcher and he's, you know, I can get anyone out for three
innings. Like, he's confident in his abilities and he ends up striking a player out
on this really gimmicky, like, riser pitch. It's called an efis. Actually. I was very
excited to see the EFIS pitch. Okay. Yeah, that is. That is a well known.
Obviously not something done today, but if you go back, there were pitchers
in the 1920s, 1930s especially, that almost exclusively threw an. Okay. And it
was just very slow, very arcing. The idea, the hard part about it is you
actually have to get it to cross the plate through the strike zone or get
them to swing. Yeah. It's like you have to hit that angle. Angle is not
easy, but most of the time guys swing because it looks like they could just
crush. Right, right. Looks like you're playing T ball. But yeah, so there's a very,
very cool ephes from. From Monty. Okay. I knew there'd be some
good baseball knowledge. I like that a lot. So, yeah, so we're kind of starting
out the game and then the team wins the game and they're one game away
from the playoffs at the end of this. And we're kind of taken to a
little celebratory hang at the bar with John Candy
and Richard Pryor. And they're just kind of hanging out. John Candy's character,
Spike, is the perfect 80s, like, fat guy, party guy in Hawaiian
shirt. He comes around from the bar and he has a full arm full of
beer. He's got like 11 Budweisers. He bites it open with his teeth. I hate
that we're establishing him as it was. I mean, he really twisted off a
twist off with his teeth, which is kind of like. But every time, whether it's
in a movie movie or God forbid, it's a video of an actual person,
whatever. It hurts my teeth to see people do that. Yes.
Literally painful. It was a thing in the Dr. Seuss teeth book. It says,
don't be dumb, like Katie Klotz. You broke his teeth biting off bottle tops
or something like that. There's a thing about it, it's bad, good stuff. So yeah,
so they're hanging out, they're hanging out at the party and there's this guy who's
kind of like shadowing him, this photographer who looks like a classic 1940s
like press tag in his fedora looking photographer. And Montgomery
Brewster Pryor thinks that oh, this might be a scout from the major leagues because
they're looking for a 37 year old relief pitcher who can, you know,
throw a good ethis. Right. That's very important. Also by the way, funny in
seeing this for the first time in 2025 to think about when was the last
time any relief pitcher anywhere in professional baseball pitched three innings? That doesn't happen.
Yeah, right. You know they have like, they have literally people that come in for
one lefty, one out. Yeah. And then at most it's like, oh,
this is a particularly, you know, this pitcher has got really
high endurance and is really durable and we're, we feel really confident with him so
we'll let him get four outs. That's like the most. It's like you come in
for that third out in the eighth, then you do the ninth. Right. Like maybe
three no innings is the last one that
we pitched three inning. If your starter is getting shelled and you
just need your seventh starter to burn some innings, that's when he comes in.
He's not your, your best reliever. Exactly. Because there's thing back then too like
just to kind of be a little baseball nerd for a little while. Like I
don't know exactly when the middle reliever as a concept was create, but I don't
think it was as early as 85. Like generally speaking you were either a starter
or you came in to close the game. So the starter would go as long
as they could. Usually you know, hopefully at least 6, 7 innings. Then somebody would
come in and finish it up. So it's not like it is today where there's
all these specialty ability, you know, these pitchers. And so relief pitchers would have to
pitch. There's probably like one or two relief pitchers on a team. They'd have
four maybe starters who would do a four man rotation and then like two or
three relievers and they would just come in and that's like you pitching almost every
day. That was a tough job, especially if they were making you go three innings.
But we'll leave the baseball nerd stuff. I think that's, that's enough shout out.
Goose Gossage Lee Smith, Raleigh. Dennis Eckersley. Yeah,
yeah. Dennis Eckersley. Yeah, yeah. That's a very good point. So it is
funny how baseball has changed to such a sport of specialists at this point.
Let's see what's happening. So we're at the bar, they're flirting with some girls.
Yes, this is funny. Yeah. So they're hitting on a couple of.
To use 80s film terminology. I don't agree with it. But racially appropriate
matches for them, which is how there's never, like a cross racial.
Racial love interest in these. It's kind of upsetting.
And they're. I think they're doing pretty well hitting on these girls. John Candy has
a very funny sequence where he's kind of talking to a girl about, like,
what a good idea it would be if they all went and got naked and
got massaged together. Very important. Your clothes are in the way. And he was talking
about, like, yeah, this doctor told me this thing. Very good at that.
I love that he kept saying, no, it's his theory. It's just a theory.
Yes. You know, because she didn't. He didn't want to come off too strong.
But let's explore the theory. Yeah, yeah, I dig that. Yeah, yeah.
And they make mention of. Perhaps they have boyfriends,
fiances. So, of course the boyfriends and fiances show up
and it's immediately a bar fight. I do just want to point out one of
the boyfriends, the black dude who's named Rudy in this we
saw very recently in Demolition Man. He was the young Zachary Lamb in the helicopter
with Stallone. But he was also one of the Agent Johnsons in Die Hard.
The FBI Agent Johnson and Johnson, like, no relation.
The one who was in middle school for the. For. For hand. For. What was
it? Saigon? Yeah, just like Saigon, right, pal? I was a middle school asshole.
That guy. Nice. All right. I spent a lot of time in helicopters. Yeah.
He. Yeah, so it was good to see a familiar face there.
So, yeah, we have very funny bar fight scene. And then it,
of course, cuts to that great comedic cut of. Now, here are our main characters
in jail. And they even. They even say, why is it just us? Right?
It is an instant brawl with everyone participating. It's that kind
of. Only in a movie, instant brawl where everybody sort of just stands up and
starts throwing things or punches. Yeah, right. Wherever they can, with no inclination
of, like, why are we doing this? It's, you know, a brawl. But, yeah,
they're the only two in jail. How strange. Like, why. Why these two, right?
And they make a comment. I think John Candy says, I don't
think it's racial, you know, because I'm in here with you. I think it's very
funny. There's a couple of very, like,
minor racial references in this movie that are funny. Right.
But I think that was a funny observation. And even. Yeah. Why is it
just us? Is almost a breaking of the fourth wall of, like. Yeah, the budget
didn't call for 30 extras for this prison scene. The cell could only be 8
by 10. Like, we couldn't fit more people in here or whatever. Eight by six.
But yeah. No, it's. And then. So. So they apparently got one phone
call and they called their manager. Right. Who is again, friend of the
pod second Jerry Orbach. Lieutenant Briscoe from Law and Order,
who was also Joey Trotta's dad in 20 soldiers. But he's here to tell him,
guys, nobody wants you. The team doesn't want you. We're not bailing you out.
There's no money for bail. There's no money for your fines. They're cutting
you. Bye. Bye. He's just, like, washing his hands of these two.
Yep. And. And so they're kind of screwed, but then they end up getting bailed
out. Right. And the person that bails them out is this photographer that's been following
around. So Montgomery feels like, oh, I like, you know, the Yankees
or the Mets are after me. Well, and it's funny, too, because in that.
That scene where, you know, John Candy, like, Spike is basically, oh, let me do
the talking. You know, it's like. And starts. And he's just digging
them in a hole so badly with all the stuff he's taking. It's like,
oh, well, you know, it's guilty, your honor, but with ulterior, you know, special circumstances
or whatever. And I love my. One of my favorite lines of the movie is
Richard Pryor not even looking at Spike, sort of points to him, but looking at.
Your honor, this man does not represent me. Your honor, he does not. This is
kind of the way he says it is. So, like, this man does not represent
me. But, yeah, so they get bailed out. And so
they're in there in, of course, Hackensack, New Jersey. So they're near the city,
but they're in New Jersey. But this is where our photographer that we
kind of don't know much about, he's taking them into New York City. And so.
And so, yeah, Monty is super stoked. He thinks it's the Mets. He thinks it's
the Yankees, probably the Mets. Like, whatever. He's really, really getting excited. Thinks he's about
to go get the call. Yeah, yeah. And I like the scene. They arrive at
this office building and it shows Spike looking at the directory,
like in the M's, and he doesn't see Mets as if it would
be listed as just Met Mets, not like the New York Metropolitan Baseball
LLC or some like that. So I thought that was
really funny. And then they're like, hey, what's going on here? And the guy's like,
look, I don't know. I was just paid to bring you here. Yeah, yeah.
He isn't. He doesn't have any idea. So he gets. So Monty getting
spiked up there, Spike in the photographer, who we found out basically, is that he's
a P.I. right. So he's hired to find them. That's who he is. They wait
in the waiting room, fight over magazines a little bit, and Monty goes in and
he ends up talking to these lawyers as an executor of a will. And then
these two lawyers who, like, run the firm that they're at. Yeah. And he finds
out he's got a great uncle that he didn't know he had. Yep. Who is.
Has died and has. It was very, very wealthy. And he is the sole
living, sort of descendant, I guess, of this guy Rupert,
I believe. Right. Uncle Rupert. And so, yeah, he's got to sit through this
ludicrous 8 millimeter film that was recorded of.
You know, you can go and tell us, but like this, this creepy, crazy old
man has set up quite the Rube Goldbergian set
up for. For Monty here. Ye wants to play a game with him.
So we get this old man, like, you know, inches away from death on
an oxygen tank, sitting there with a bucket hat, you know, looking like one of
the oldest, like, mafia figures still alive. He looks like one of the guys.
One of the oldest men possible or one of the youngest zombies that there is.
He's one of the most freshly turned zombies during the apocalypse. Either the most decrepit
man or the freshest zombie. He's sitting right there on the Jim Rice line on
that Fulcrum. Yeah. Where is he at?
We got to keep it baseball here. So one
thing, the executor of the estate, the actor there was Commissioner
Gordon in the Tim Burton Batman. I was like, what is this guy from?
And then there's a couple of bad guy looking lawyers who definitely
aren't looking out for his best interest. So this video is telling us this is
his great uncle, Rupert Horn. Who's this
rich dude? And he says, basically,
when I was a kid, I got caught smoking a cigar.
And to punish me, my dad locked me in the closet with a box of
cigars and a book of matches and said, don't come out until you smoke them
all. So I learned to hate smoking cigars. He's like, I'm gonna teach you how
to hate spending money. And the deal is,
actually, before he says that, he says, oh, I bet you didn't know your great
grandpa was a honky. Yeah, right? He refers to the
family as checkered, Which I'm like, I guess that's maybe the
best way they could have put that in a racist way. You know what I
mean? It's maybe, like, the least racist. There's a couple of those. There's a couple
of those in this movie. So here's the deal for Montgomery Brewster.
You have to spend $30 million in 30 days.
At the end of 30 days, you have $0 left over. You can give
5% to charity. You can gamble away 5%. You cannot give money away.
You can hire people, whoever you want, but you have to get value in return
for it. You can't destroy something valuable. So you couldn't buy a painting and light
it on fire. He says, and the most important thing is you cannot tell a
soul. And your money's gonna be meticulously accounted for by
Drake, who's this accountant that we're providing to you. And he's like,
okay, well, let's see this Drake guy. And it turns out Drake's actually a lady.
So the deal is, though, if he can spend this 30 million in 30 days,
then he will inherit the full inheritance of $300 million.
Otherwise, he gets nothing. And then the alternate.
The alternative that he has is you could take a million bucks now and forget
about all this, right? And this is a guy where it's revealed to us he's
never made more than $11,000 in a year. He's been, you know, broke. Minor league
hasn't changed. I mean, I think the minor league wages are up a little.
You might make like, 14 grand a year now. You know, he's really
barely surviving. So a million dollars is like, he never would have imagined that.
But he's like, you know what? Fuck it. Because he does seem way
more excited about, like, this is going to help with baseball than
from the very beginning. He doesn't think like, I'm rich. I'm whatever.
I guess it's like a temporary thing anyway, since he has to spend it all
but he seems excited about what this can do for his baseball team.
Yeah, it feels like he's. He denies or declines, rather,
the million to walk away and just be done with it. Hoping for the 300
million, it sounds like, mainly because he wants to buy, if not the Hackensack Bulls,
he wants to buy a baseball team. Yeah. You know, and get in and stay
in the. That way. I did want to mention, I did the quick look up
on the inflation and everything since 85. Oh, yeah. So the
million that he passed up, that would be like 3 million in today's dollars.
The 30 million he has to spend in 30 days would be 90 million.
And then the 300 million grand prize essentially is 900 million. So be close to
being a billionaire in these dollars. Oh, my God. Yeah. So definitely
big, big money. So then if he. If he tries and fails,
this is. Sorry, this big thing that I left out, then this law firm then
gets power of attorney over the entire estate with a very substantial
fee for them. So they look to really make out like bandits here.
And Montgomery, his character, I feel like I
said in the beginning, he's a very sweet guy. He says good luck to
the other guys as he's leaving the office, even though they're like, we're trying to
fuck you over out of this and we're going to do our best to make
sure you fail. And he's like, all right, good luck, fellas, and walks out.
So talking about the inflation, I just wanted to give a quick tax rundown of
this because. So the burden of the
estate tax is paid by the estate. Okay. And so that would mean that whatever
Monty is actually getting is after tax. Okay. And at this time,
the estate tax for estates over, like, $400,000 was like
55%. Oh, wow. And this is a federal estate tax. I think New York State
also had one. I couldn't find the historical rate, but. But I'm thinking that the
actual value of this estate, if he's getting 300 million, is like
750 or $800 million.
So I feel like his uncle could have
found maybe more cost effective ways to have fun with his money, but.
Well, he's dead, so what does he care now? That's true. That's very true.
Doing the same translation, you're talking about two, maybe two and a half billion in
today's dollars then. Yeah. This is kind of crazy.
So I thought that was interesting because, like, yo. Yeah. So,
yeah, so now, now he says, all right, let's do it. But he can't tell
anyone. So basically, he tells Spike, I just inherited $30 million.
And then that's what. That's what he's clearly going to have access to what
he needs to start spending. So he does need to tell people I've inherited this
money. Right. That's sort of the story. He just can't give up any of the,
like, plan, the plot, the game that's going on, or it'll. He'll lose.
Right, okay. Right. Right. So he ends up going
to the bank, and they have these, like, big pallets of cash
for him, which is really a great visual. It made. It made me think of
your watch. Breaking Bad. There's a point where Walter White's keeping the. In, like a
storage unit, just keeping the pallet. And I'm like, wow, there's three, though. Walter White
would be so jealous. He's got three pallets full of cash.
It was really cool to see that. And the bank is. This is
a good sign of the times here. The bank manager, whoever, is saying,
oh, oh, Mr. Brewster, we're so happy to have your money in the bank.
We're happy to offer you our special 24%
interest rate, which normally we only offer to whatever,
like, royals and stuff. Oh, my God. And that's to pay him.
That's not him borrowing on a payday loan. This is your interest.
And he says, no, I don't want any interest. I just want it in a
regular account that doesn't earn any money. But can you imagine that that's more than
10 times what a really good rate was up until, like, two years ago,
right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Really crazy. I mean, at this point, if you're lucky,
you can find a 4 or 5%, like, savings account just. Just to put your
money back. Not. Not investing it. Can't lose it. You're just sitting it in the
bank. So, yeah, 24. I mean, now, of course, what was a home loan back
then? Like, 20? Sure, sure. But if you're on the.
In the Montgomery Brewster side of the ledger, you're. You're looking good, you're doing good
stuff. So he starts. He starts looking around and he tells Spike.
He's like, this is our ticket to the big leagues. This is how we get
some acknowledgement for all this work we've done as baseball
players. And he starts hiring people. So he hires this P.I. he's like, you're my
personal photographer. You get $10,000 a week. Taxi driver,
who is the great Yakov Smirnoff. Five grand a
week. And he's telling him to get these limos. The security guy who follows him
everywhere and carries his briefcase full of money and makes all his payments for him
and ostensibly puts his life on the line, only gets four grand a week.
Yeah. So strange. And he's watching Montgomery throughout this thing, throwing tens and hundreds
of thousands of dollars at bullshit. And he's like, I'm the kind of the only
one actually doing something right. He's doing real work. Yeah, that's really important and
safe and everything. And yeah, it's not exactly equitable, but that's
okay. I did love that Yakov Smirnoff got to do his. His catchphrase as
his character, you know, the country. Like, hey, two consecutive films
with stand up comedian. Well, I guess we had demolish man a few weeks
ago. That's right. Yeah. But with Dennis Leary doing his act. Good to
see that. I thought this was really funny. So he goes out to the
pay phone and he calls his baseball manager back. And he's had this inheritance.
He's like, hey, we're great. Like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna hook the team up,
we're gonna get new uniforms, we're gonna play the Yankees. He already has this idea
in his head, and the guy says, well, if you're.
If you're so rich, like, why are you calling me? Yeah.
And he said, he said, oh, they only gave me $100 bills. I had to
rent a quarter from my accountant.
I love that. So he wants them to play the Yankees. And this is kind
of the setup of like his ultimate goal. But during that time,
he has to get rid of all this, right? Yeah, yeah.
So they. They show up and he's gonna take everybody out to lunch. When I
say everybody, it's like everyone nearby. Yeah.
Really, it's like, let's all go to lunch. I don't know exactly what restaurant they
go to, but it's a very fancy restaurant in New York City. And the mater
d, you know, sort of like, is like, oh, you know, whatever. And he's like,
hey, you know, this much per plate, you know, we'll. Whatever, I'll overpay for
everybody. Let's just get in here. And he says, he turns, he goes, do you
like Lafitte? Chateau Lafitte is a very, very nice grand cru Bordeaux.
You know, today a bottle of Lafitte would run you like 450
to 500 a bottle at a bare minimum. Like, that's like. That's like if you're
buying it at a store at a Restaurant, it would be even more. Yeah.
So, yeah, he is spending money real quick. Yeah. Yeah. I also noticed he got,
you know, shortly after that. Right. So there's lunch and I. If you want to
talk about the lunch scene too much, but, like, you know, he immediately spends a
million to rent out the top two floors of the Plaza for a month.
And it's like, that's a good start. Yeah. If you're trying to spend 30 million
in 30 days and you can drop a million in one day. Yeah, man,
that's got to feel good, right? I feel like you've got a good start going.
I would have loved, like, a director's cut
or an alternate edit of this that has a little, like a running tally of
his money in the bottom of the screen. So every time he's like, oh,
I'm hiring you for this, and it goes down. So, yeah,
that was a good move. And he gets this whole top floor for all of
his friends who are basically like the random people that he took to lunch.
Right. This is basically like when Eddie Murphy first comes into Money and Trading Places.
Very, very similar. Very similar. So Spike shows
up and he's hired Spike as his executive
vice president or something because he's hiring people all around him. And Spike's just
kind of like, wow, my friend's rich. And the photographer's like, yeah, you haven't gotten
hired for anything yet. And he starts a company. He even says something about like,
oh, I'm starting a company in the morning and he's going to be vice president
or whatever. He doesn't say really what the company does or anything like that.
But. But yeah, there's. There's that. He does start a company and Spike. Gets a
little cash and then he shows up the next day and he's got a new
suit and one of the coolest accessories. He has this giant gold
catcher's helmet medallion or catcher's mask medallion.
And he says. He says, I got all these clothes at the same place.
They made this for Johnny Bench. But he didn't come pick it up, so they
gave it to me. I love. So good. It took me so long
to figure out what that was around his neck when he first walks onto Scre
wearing it. Like, it's so shiny that him walking through this soundstage
or wherever they are with lights on him, it just was so. It was so.
Must be so hard for the cinematographer to, like, light balance the scene around
that catcher's mask because it's so brilliant. Thing was polished up, baby.
Drake. Angela Drake. Who's the accountant? She makes mention
early on that she has a fiance. And I'm meeting my fiance tonight. Warren Cox.
Yes. And he also works at the law firm that 10. That stands to
really benefit if Brewster fails. Right. But he's an attorney. Angela's a
paralegal and an accountant. But Warren is actually an attorney there at the firm.
He's more kind of like in the inner circle at this place. Right. And Warren
makes some comment about the interior design of the apartment. He's like, oh yeah,
I see what they were going for. I guess this is fine. This is a
pretty good job. And then Montgomery, seeing an opportunity to blow some more money,
says, oh, you like interior design? I'll hire you to do it. His ex
wife was an interior designer. Designer. So he pays him 250
grand. Plus he pays the professional designer 100 grand,
which I guess he ran it through the female pay calculator of 1985.
Jesus. Yeah, but so then
he gets them in his place. So they're always doing this crazy stuff with his
apartment. And Warren Cox. So that's an actor I recognized immediately. And I'll say from
where, but I looked him up too because I wanted to see like what else
he'd been in. What I did not recognize him for from was his over
240 episode run on the show seventh heaven when he was
apparently the father of and reverend of this family. He was on the like for
you know, 10 years or something. This show was on. I know him as Bruce
Mathis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Deandra and Dennis's
Real Father 2 episode arc on Sonny.
And I immediately was like, oh my God, it's Bruce Mathis. Oh, nice.
I love when they, they appear later. Yeah, Yeah. I knew he looked familiar.
I wasn't sure what. And I never watched seventh No, I was not. Not on
my radar really. But y. I was looking through IMDb it's because it pops up
and you look and it says, oh, 242 episodes. Oh my God. He was obviously
a series mainstay on seventh. I'd never even watched that. That was not, not on
my radar. There's WBCW shows and really they missed us
by a little bit. Yeah, Montgomery is back. He's at his hotel
room, penthouse, whatever, and is just being absolutely flooded by people
who are seeing an opportunity because the word is out. We're being treated to
these little kind of cut scenes where the news reporter is kind
of explaining bits of the plot like, oh, you know, we Got Montgomery Brewster here.
This reporter guy is the dude that ends up giving Roddy
Piper the sunglasses and they live. He's been in a bunch of shit. He's been
in a lot of, like, John Carpenter movies and kind of interesting. I just thought
of this. The director of this movie, Walter Hill, also directed
the Warriors. Oh, wow. Cool, right? Okay, so the warriors, great movie.
Very different from this, but the warriors uses the device of having the radio DJ
kind of like move the plot along through. So this, like, news reporter served a
similar function to the radio DJ from the Warriors. That's awesome. Who was also the
chief on the Carmen Sandiego TV show. Okay, I'm done.
Yeah. Oh, my God. I thought the chief on Carmen San Diego
was a black woman. It was a black woman. The radio DJ and the Warriors.
The radio DJ and the Warriors. Sorry. That's okay. I was like, wait, this guy.
But, sorry, this scene, I just. He's basically being
flooded by all these people, like, hey, I do this. I have this investment opportunity
I have. And this is one scene that made me laugh so hard when I
was watching it. And this didn't generate a ton of out loud laughs for me,
but this scene killed me. And Rick Moranis pops in and he just comes
up from behind him and he says, hi, I'm Morty King, King of the Mimics.
Like, I can mimic anyone. And what he's doing is just copying everything that
Montgomery says right behind him. Does not sound precious.
Just doing it. And it's so. And he's so relentless about it.
And he's like, hey, choke this guy. And Moranis will say, hey, choke this guy,
as he's getting put in the headlock. I. And it was very brief. It was
like two minutes long. But to me, that was like. That was the funniest thing
in this whole movie. I don't even know if it was two minutes. But Rick
Moranis is so good, you know, and. And frankly, looking real good.
He's got the beard going. He's looking slim. Like. This was Moranis
at the height of his, what, what sex appeal he had over his career.
I think this was the peak of it, probably. Oh, yeah. But so funny and
so perfect. Dropped in, into this, into this group and,
you know, this feels like one of those things where it's like another
thing where, hey, let's put one of our friends in, you know, kind of thing.
Let's just give him a little. A little, you know, scene here and there.
And. And. And yeah, because he's only in it. I Kept expecting him to come
back. I did too, for at least a little sometimes. Wow, that was great.
I hope he comes back. But just to have Richard Pryor, Rick Moranis and John
Candy on screen together, right, like in a single shot, it's like, we need more
of that. That was really nice. So shout out to Rick Moranis,
one of the greats and really. Absolutely, absolutely, like knocked it
out of the park with his brief moment in. This movie he made. He made
every second count for sure.
So let's see now at this point, we've. We've kind of secured
the New York Yankees for a three inning exhibition game, right?
Yeah, yeah. And he said that he's rented the stadium
that the Bulls play in. So he's rented the stadium, he can do renovations,
which that was a fantastic way to spend money, Right. If you rent the stadium,
you don't own any of the renovations when the lease is over. Right. So if
you rent it for a month or 28 days or whatever he's got, you know,
left, he won't own anything. He won't have any of those assets and the renovations
will have all cost money and not be his. He gets new uniforms
for the team, like all kinds of. He really like. Some of these choices he's
making are really very smart about not giving money
away. It's not charity, but it is like buying something that only temporarily helps
him. Like I thought it was a very smart kind of move and not really
something I thought of right away, but like, yeah, very, very good. And the way
he transported the team, he took them on a bus from where they
were in Hackensack, I think to the airport in somewhere. And then they took a
helicopter from the airport and then we're going to take a bus basically right back
to where they started. It sounded like, and this is I think later in the
film, but it sounded like they took a bus from Hackensack to Newark Airport and
then flew from Newark to jfk, which I'm sure nobody actually does because they're literally
right next to it. Then had to take helicopters from jfk.
The. I don't know where they were. Some landing pad in Manhattan,
basically. Right. And then they had to get on a bus to go back to
Hackensack to play the game. It was something like that. It was just the most
insane. But again, if you're trying to burn. Money, he did it right.
So I think that and his friends at this point
are kind of feeling like there needs to be an intervention because
they're concerned. They don't know about the upside of. This whole thing, right to them.
And of course, this is Uncle Rupert's plan to his friends, the people around
him. Monty is insane. He is literally burning cash. He's not making any responsible
decisions. Every time he has an opportunity to, like, invest something or. Or, you know,
whatever, he does not take it. He does not go for it. You know,
there's a point where he places a bunch of bets
on, like, long shots. Right. He says like 5,000 on every underdog. And he even
sees Loyola, the college in Chicago where we learn Angela Drake went to. They're playing
Notre Dame in field hockey. And Notre dame is like 20 to 1 favorites
or something like that, whatever it is. So he's bets on Loyola and he comes,
you know, a few scenes later, the same guy comes back super pissed off.
Just like you never place another bet here. They won. And he just dumps.
Dumps all the money of money all over him. He's like. Like you're never placing
a bet in this town ever again. Like, he's super, super mad. And watching Brewer
get kind of a Brewster get increase of increasingly distressed
as he finds out he's making money. Right. It's hard. It's hard
to not make money. It's hard money in ways that don't do anything for you.
This is kind of a good, you know, analysis of. Of how
it is for people that have absurd amounts of money is if you can.
Even if you're stupid, you can keep taking these long shots and once in a
while something hits. Yeah. And then you're right back where you started or ahead of
it. Yeah. Like, if your father, you know, gives you, like, millions of dollars and
you end up bankrupting casinos and universities and stealing from charities,
like, you could still end up present the United States. Yeah. It's really crazy.
Yeah. I can't believe William Henry Harrison did that. But actually it was. It was
McKin. Yeah. So. So there's a funny line here too,
somewhere. I don't. I wrote it down, but I don't know exactly where it comes.
But at some point, Spike and the. And the photographer, I don't remember his name,
but they are constantly kind of at each other's throats. That's a good dynamic,
arguing back and forth. It's a lot of fun. And at one point, I think
Spike is because he's getting concerned about Monty. He says something about, like, oh,
should you do something? And the photographer says, hey, I'm getting paid to
take pictures. My job is not to interpret reality. Yes. I Love that so
much. Okay, I'm glad you brought that up. Richard Pryor is not credited
as as a screenwriter on this movie. But that feels like a Richard
Pryor joke. That is such a highbrow joke. That feels very Richard Pryor.
It does. And it's one that I called out immediately, I thought was fantastic.
There's a good scene of Montgomery and Spike playing
catch inside the hotel suite. Pitching and catching. And I
kept trying to see. I was like, they must be using some kind of a
double for the baseball scenes for Prior, because every time it showed him
throw from the front, it would cut to behind him. So you'd never see the
throw going. But then when it showed him actually playing in the game, like he
had decent pitching form, he looked like he'd thrown a baseball before. And no one
was credited in the credits for stunts or anything like that. So I'm not sure
how that worked. Yeah, it was probably. There's probably something buried in the credits somewhere
for some kind of stunt coordinator where they wouldn't have called out specifically like a
double for him as like a particular line in the credits or anything. And it
could have been him throwing, but more likely. And what they do a lot in
these sports movies, when you have non athletes acting in sports movies, they just learn
the motion if they don't already know it. They get taught. They bring in a
consultant show. This is how you wind up and throw a pitch. But they don't
try to throw it. So the fact that Monty is like throwing what look like
good 85, 90 pitches that are really smacking the glove for Spike, there's no
way Prior actually it would hurt his arm too bad. Right. It literally would be
dangerous for the production to have him do that. So he learned, I'm sure,
really, you know, he had to learn the good wind up, you know, the good
motion and really look realistic. But the reason that cut comes
to the back of him is not only so that we see where his pitch
goes, which is convenient. Yeah, but it is, because I can say I don't know
for sure, but I'm like 95% confident. Richard Prior to not throwing those pitches well.
And I always say if it was him, then they would show his face because
why wouldn't they? It benefits them in every way to show his face that he's
doing it. Would be a big deal. Like, look at what Richard Breyer can do.
Yeah. You know, he's funny. You know he can act. Did you know he can
throw 80 mile an hour fastballs like he Would. Have had like a 30 team
run of throwing out the first pitch in major league stadiums after that, you know,
so, so yeah, I was curious about that, but I think that's a really good
explanation of how that stuff works. And it,
but to Richard Pryor's credit, like he had a wind up,
you know, and I was looking up, I thought he was really short for some
reason. Just because he's a very. He's so slight, thin guy, right? But he's like
5, 10. He could be like a Pedro Martinez kind of physique of a pitcher
or something like that. I mean there's a lot of like, there's tall and skinny
pitchers, there's short, squat pitchers, there's all kinds of different, you know, everybody. It works
out for everybody if you got the, got the arm. So he
feels like he's doing a good job at this point. He's getting winning
some money with the gambling and some of these investments. He's like, ah, but he's
finding ways to waste money. And one very clever thing that he did is went
into a rare stamp shop and he bought that very famous stamp
which I've seen referenced in like the Simpsons and stuff like that, where the plane
was printed upside down. And it's $1.25 million.
And then it cuts to the lawyers sitting there in their office reading
the news story. Montgomery Brewster buys $1.25 million stamp,
which is typical front page news on a New York newspaper paper. Like, I think
that's pretty. I get what you're doing, but I actually think it would be if,
if, if what was happening was actually happening. And I don't think it was the
Times, you know, it was like the Post or the Daily News. Right. It was
one of the, like raggier. Yeah. New York. And I think this would be okay.
Tabloid headlines, right? Is that Brewster is spending all this money. He was making quite
the series on Action news. True. You know, he's got this exhibition with the Yankees
back when the Yankees were garbage, by the way. Like The Yankees in 85 were
fucking terrible. Like there was. Nobody gave, nobody outside New York gave a shit about
the, the Yankees in 85. That was in between their glory. Yeah, that was,
that was a rough time. Rough time for them. But yeah, I think that's what
this, most of the time we see these, these you know,
things hitting the newspaper and movies and you go, yeah, why the hell would that
be in the news? But this one though, I think actually would fit. Plus you
got to bury like Iran Contra and Like all the shit that's actually happening.
So, yeah. So the. The lawyers are reading this
newspaper headline. This idiot he just bought this is a major
asset. He's not allowed to have any assets when he's done with it. Ha ha
ha. And then their assistant comes in, says, oh, sir, this mail was delivered to
you. And he looks at the envelope. It's from Montgomery Brewster,
and it has that stamp on it. He used that stamp to mail it,
which. Great move. It seems like destruction is something inherently valuable, but I
guess he didn't destroy it himself. So it's like Simon Phoenix not being
able to kill Cocteau, but he can have someone else do it. I don't.
I don't quite get that. But that's. That's bit a little. Little hole in this
film. That could be. It could be. And I wrote down the same thing.
Like, doesn't that destroy it? But the more I thought about it, the fact that
a stamp has value beyond its printed amount
is just. That's what the market will bear. Right. It's like any collectible. It's.
It's a God value only because people are willing to pay for it. Right.
It's inherent, innate value is just what it is,
which is as a stamp. Yeah. I keep saying wine and stuff. If you
drink wine, like you could. Buy using it for its purpose. Exactly. So I think,
although I did again have the same instinct you had about that. But I think
because he used the stamp for the purpose that was originally created, they could not
claim that he had destroyed something like unwilling or,
you know, out. Just that it was inside the realm of the rules, I think.
And obviously it never comes up. They clearly don't try to argue with him that
he did that. But yeah, I thought the same thing. It's kind of like,
man, that is. That seems like a really foolish way to destroy a
$1.2 million stamp. Right. So he's
getting kind of increasingly unhinged, especially in the eyes of everyone around him.
I mean, he feels like I'm doing what I need to do to make this
thing work. Angela doesn't like it, but he finally gets her to agree
to go to lunch with him. He's like, hey, all I'm gonna spend money on
is taking you to lunch. And it seems like kind of a turning point in
this. It's kind of a weird romantic story. Right. Other than that she's
there. I don't know exactly why they connected, other than that he's nicer
than her boyfriend. Yeah. I think it's partly about the fiance,
Warran, and his ex wife, the designer. They're now working
together under Brewster. And I think this was part of his whole plan of hiring
the two of them is that they're together again doing something that obviously is important
to the two of them and that Angela's not involved in. So I think it's
just a little bit of. And this is sort of would make the argument about
Monty not being all that great a guy, but it's sort of like driving a
wedge between Angela and Warren or at least handing the wedge to
Warren and letting him drive it between them. Something like that. But that's, I think,
kind of the crux of it. And so then I think Angela is just sort
of like intrigued by Monty. He's a very interesting
character. Obviously he's a nice guy. I mean, he treats people well around him.
He's not a jerk. Right. But he's also bizarre. And I think that a lot
of times people are just kind of drawn to bizarre people. And I think maybe
that's the case here. Yeah, that's a good point. So it seems like things
are going to turn and I'm just going to take you to lunch and all
we're doing is we're going to have lunch. Let's get in the car and oh,
somebody rear ended them. That's right. And they turn around. Clearly this other person's
fault, not their fault. They're sitting there, stopped, and somebody hit them from behind.
And in the conversation, Monty sees this as an opportunity to kick
some cash to this guy. No, no, I don't think you're okay. You seem a
little dizzy, sir. And ends up basically writing this guy a check for 300 grand.
300 grand, like one of the biggest. Checks writes in it, security guard absolutely
losing his mind. Well, the security guard is getting paid. Every week,
but the only guy who's actually doing a job.
So Andrew, Angela is. Loses it. I mean,
that's enough for her. And that was like enough of a display. He did the
exact opposite of what he said he was going to do right after he said
it. Right. And Monty is also just like sick of this shit. Yeah, he's kind
of like, dude, I'm done being this rich guy. This is getting
very exhausting. Yeah, I think at one point, I don't know if this happened yet,
but at one point Spike shows up and he's super excited. Is that the next.
Okay, so, yeah, Spike is super excited. He's got news along with this financial advisor
that they hired for. For For Monty, who originally only wanted to take commission.
I'll only earn money if you make money. But of course, Monty doesn't want him
to make him money, so he pays him a salary to do it, but basically
made some investments, and those investments have paid off.
Yeah. And you. You want. You got 10 million more dollars. The craziest,
like, in, like, a week. Which is like, whatever investment this was.
It sounds like he probably invested in crack cocaine. But, like, you know, basically he
ended up earning 10 million more for Montes. He has to get rid of
10 million more dollars. Right. And he already had this baseball
game set up, so he was like, dude, I was on track to be through
all my money. And kind of a very funny scene here where
he's just, like, basically sitting there like, oh, my God,
I need to waste a lot of money on nothing in a short
period of time. How am I going to do this? And get something on TV
where it's about the money that's being spent in the New York mayoral race,
which is in no way relevant to current events.
And it dawns on him, he's like, oh, there we go.
And he starts a campaign not to be elected mayor,
but to say, these guys suck. Our choices suck.
I say everyone should vote for none of the above. I suck, too. Don't vote
for me. I don't have anything. I'm an idiot. That sucks. Telling you not to
vote for these sucky. Don't vote for me just because I'm rich. That's dumb.
Vote for none them of. Of the above. Right? Yeah. And then there's. We get
a great montage of, like, the newspapers being printed, which includes the guys carrying
the giant roll of, like, newspaper paper. It's pretty cool, Which I enjoyed.
So we got a good extended scene of that. Well, at the. At the.
The sort of press conference where he announces his candidacy, there's a couple of reporters
that ask questions about. Three reporters Ask questions, but two of them I recognize.
Some other movies I always want to call. So the woman, her name is Lynn
Shea, and she was fantastic in the Insidious franchise.
She plays this medium in the Insidious movies, and she's really great in that.
Okay. You know, decades later. But no, but the male political reporter, just a
few years after this movie came out, would play. I think he's a sergeant in
the LAPD during the siege of Nakatomi Plaza.
He's the one that goes, send in the car. Send in the car. He's that
guy. We get a couple. A couple. Die Hard. Alums in this movie. That's great.
It's pretty crazy. Nice.
This was a very funny thing that the news
guy said when he was talking about Monte Brewster's run for
mayor or his campaign for none of the above for mayor. He says he's running
spots in all 50 states just in case New Yorkers are on vacation. 52.
Somebody says all 52 states at some point. I think it was one of the
lawyers. Okay. Running ads in all 52 states. And I'm like, what?
Like, I guess if you're counting D.C. and Puerto Rico. Is that what they're doing?
I don't know why they would say 52. Yeah. Bizarre. Yeah, that is. That is.
That's odd. It was very strange. So he
ends up having a rally, like a None of the above rally, and a bunch
of people show up. But it's like, the more he says, and I did like
this part, and it's like, I don't know, it's kind of a stereotypical
old crank guy to be like, well, all politicians are crooks or whatever. It's like,
people have been saying that for 50 years, but also nothing has changed in
50 years. So you're not wrong to have these opinions. So it's kind of funny.
But just him getting on TV and relating to people and being like,
I'm just a reg guy and I don't know anything. Just like, you know?
And that resonated so much with people. I really like that.
We got a montage as he's spending money on this campaign
of the pallets of money dwindling like a quick. I really like that.
That was good to see. Yes. And this is the quote, and I'll kick
it back over. But about the mayoral campaign,
the Montgomery Brewster quote. Why else would
someone spend $10 million for a $60,000 a year job unless
he planned to steal it back? Interest. And it's like, yes, that's 100%,
like, the most concise way to look at all this stuff. So I enjoyed that.
And especially this was, like, very influential on me as a kid and kind of
lined up with things my dad would say because he was kind of, like,
jaded on Electro world stuff, which I. Which I am, like,
on board with to a degree. So I was like, okay, yeah, this is.
Yeah, yeah, man. They're a bunch of. They're a bunch of crooks.
Sort of like, you know, why would the mayor of New York have to visit
a foreign country as, like, one of his duties in his office? That's so good.
Dumb Again, nothing to do with current stuff.
So. Yeah. So we're pretty. I think we're to the Yankee game now. Yes.
So. And this is the first thing I thought of was, like, why wouldn't he
blow more money by renting Yankee Stadium? Even though he's, like, leased the
hack and sexy and he's done renovations last minute. He could have been like,
hey, let's. I mean, the Yankees were available. Yeah. There's nothing going on at the
stadium. That's true. He could have paid hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to
rent Yankee Stadium. I feel like it's a big miss on Monty's part to not.
Not waste. Yeah. Well, I think he was so dedicated to the Hackensack Bulls,
he needs to bring some glory. But that's the smart move. We don't get the
gag with the train. Although he could have paid to renovate Yankee Stadium to
have a train track through the middle of it that probably. Would have cost more
than $30 million to convince them to do that.
Yeah. And the scene is great. There are several actors
in this scene in the Yankee game that are kind of from elsewhere as well.
Okay. And this is just one of my favorite things to do, but Dixon,
the second Yankees hitter, okay. Who I think is the one
that gets in it. Gets into it with. With. Oh, no,
John Candy gets into it with the first one about his wife being. Guy having
an ugly wife or something like that. It's one of those. Yeah. I think it's.
I think Dixon, he makes fun of his wife, right? Yeah. He goes on later
in life to play Grady Thus and the head scout for the A's and Moneyball.
So nice. Like, fuck you, Billy. Like, that guy. Is that batter. Okay.
Super funny to me. Baseball kind of connection. The other ones are the announcers.
Okay, I got one of the announcers. I. Okay, I was. The guy didn't know
who it was. So who do we got? I think the one you didn't know,
because the only place I recognize him from was a sitcom no one our age
should ever have watched. He played the character Rick on Grace Under Fire,
which, if you ever watch in the late 90s, it was. God, what's her
name? She. It's a female comedian with a man's first name.
Brett Butler. Yes, thank you. Butler. Her show, Grace Under Fire,
he played Rick, her love interest. But that. But the other one's the one you
thought of, I think. No. So who's the other one? No one's Poppy from Seinfeld,
the guy who owned the restaurant Wouldn't wash his hands when he went in and
saw Jerry in the bathroom. Those are. The two are poppy. And then Rick from
Grace Under Fire were the two I knew. So I think Rick from Grace Under
Fire, I know him as Bubba from the
TV series In the Heat of the Night. Okay. Shout out Cindy Pottier,
even though he was in the movie and not TV series. Alan Autry, I believe
is the actor's name. So, yeah, I always remember
that because that was one of those things that my cousin would tape and me
and my brother and my cousin would watch this show over and over and over.
So, yeah, I always. I'm like, Bubba. And then I realized, like, that's not a
big star. But that's so funny. That's great that they were all recognizable.
Oh. Anyway, so, yeah, that's a fun little. Fun little thing. Yeah.
So a pretty good baseball scene, I would say. Like we're not getting a ton
of baseball, but we get like, you know, a diving catch by the third baseman
and just a little. They don't. They know that the strength is not showing.
A bunch of live baseball in this. There's an interesting thing that happens. So the
third Yankees batter in the first inning gets up and is batting on the left
hand. He's batting left handed. He's on the right side of the plate. So he's
batting left handed. But it's clear that whoever put together wardrobe for
the day they were shooting did not know that batter, that that actor
is left handed. So they. Only one helmet. No, it was the. No,
the helmet was correct. The glove. He's wearing a glove on his right hand,
which. No, excuse me, he's wearing a glove on his left hand, which a right
handed batter would do. So on him, it's the upper hand on the bat,
not the bat near the end. Not the hand or the end of the bat
that has the glove on it, which would make no sense either way. Both,
none. Or you only wear it on your bottom hand in your grip. Okay,
so for a left handed batter, that would be his right, but it was the
other way around. I was like, that's the kind of crap I noticed that nobody
fucking knows about. That's what we're here for. That is our purpose on this earth.
Forget raising our kids, forget taking care of our families. It's that stuff never change.
So the Bulls are hanging in there, right? And Monty Brewster's claim
that he can get anyone out for three innings is kind of holding up.
So far. They're in the third inning. They're up. One night, nothing. Everyone's watching it
on tv. For some reason, he's paying, obviously, to have it televised.
Warren Cox goes into the furniture store to get this deposit back.
So this is their plan to sabotage Monte Brewster is
that he goes in there and he has a $20,000 deposit that they had kind
of assumed was an expense. They didn't track it as an asset, and he is
going to not give it back to him till the very last when he
goes to get the deposit at the furniture company. The guy that
gives him the money, who works there, the dude with the mustache, is Kurt Russell's
friend from Overboard. That's who was. I knew he was somebody. He's been
in a place. He's been a ton of stuff, but. That is what I thought.
He was, like, all over the place there.
So. So the game is going, and then,
you know, the Yankees end up getting to Monty. They even made
a comment early in the game when he threw a pitch, and they were like,
oh, was that your change up? And then a spike was like, no. That'S his
fastball, right? Yeah. So they know they're really outclassed here. So the
Yanks hit a grand slam and they end up winning. You know, Brewster gets pulled
and he walks out of the game, and they end up winning four to one.
Yeah. And it was around this time. So between that and then, of course,
after the game, and this is basically the last of his money that he spent
on all this. Made me think of another fantastic sports movie. I think we've even
referenced it in earlier episodes. Basketball. The. When I thought
in my head, the line paraphrased, it certainly does seem to be raining
shit on Monty Brewster today. Like, because he just
looks so sad. He was so sad. Right. And he's down to his last $38,000,
he says. Yep. And he's. I think
he kind of plays it. I mean, Richard Pryor is not the greatest actor.
He's, like, an amazing comedian. He's not, like, the best actor, but I think there's
something about this character that's like, maybe this is good act. Acting.
Yeah. The way that he's, like, so kind of, like,
uncertain at all times and, like, he can't.
I don't know. Like, maybe he's doing a really good job of playing, like,
how nervous this guy would be. Yeah. There's. There's. So what you gotta look at
right when you're, like, judging acting, which is, like, kind of a silly thing to
do. Obviously it's an artistic, creative endeavor. So, like, judging. It's a little funny,
but especially someone who doesn't do it. But I feel like the thing
I always look at is, does it look like this is something where this,
this actor or actress has made choices and those choices. Choices have led
to this performance, or is this just them trying to
get through this and that's just the best they can muster. Right. And that sort
of thing. And I would say that that nervousness and that uncertainty couldn't
really not be choices because Richard Pryor is a performer. Richard Pryor has been
in other films. There's a script in front of him. It's not like he doesn't
actually know what to say. So all these times when he comes off is like,
just not sure how to move forward or stuttering over things in some ways.
Like those are choices that Richard Pryor was making. I'm conscious confident in. Yeah.
So I think this is absolutely an example of like, you know, again, it's still
not fantastic acting. This is not an Oscar winning performance. But he's a
good actor and, you know, was. And I think that these are clearly choices that
he made in order to, like, bring this character to life. I think to me
that's like the baseline of, like, is this good acting or not? Is, are we
watching someone make choices and those choices leading to a performance, or are we watching
somebody just saying lines? You know what I mean? And it didn't feel like he
was just saying lines, he was making choices. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
And I think he might have started at that point to kind of have some
physical issues, which if you're playing a kind of like uncertain, like,
meekish character, actually really play to your image, you know.
So he's down to his last $38,000. He is
kind of. I mean, he doesn't seem that excited because he's basically like torn down
everything around him. And at this point, it's looking like a bunch of people are
going to vote for him for mayor instead of none of the above. And what
he's told is that if you get this job from mayor, that's a $60,000
a year job. That's considered an asset. No, it's not.
That's not an asset. It's a job you can quit the first day. That is
it. That is a. You don't get paid your salary when you get. No,
exactly. Good point. So I did not like that. But I see where they're going
with it. You can't be. It can't end with him Becoming mayor. Yeah, right.
He would have gained because. Because also we know. Right. From his own assertion
that no one would spend $10 million to get a $60,000 a year job unless
they were going to get more. That being mayor of New York City has perks
and privileges. Privileges far beyond the salary. That again, while not assets from
a tax standpoint or like. Like a, you know, a balance sheet.
Speaking fees are going up. Yeah. It's certainly the lawyers and the
executor would probably look at that as having materially gained from the
$30 million fake inheritance, which would be against the rules.
Right. Just like if he had gotten, like, a doctorate or. I mean, you can't
get that in 30 days. But if he had invested in some way that gave
him like a. Yeah. A leg up at the. And one thing that I was
thinking of, because he's hitting the point where he's down to his last 30 grand,
and everyone's, like, very sad for him. They have this kind of election night,
slash last night at the hotel party, and everyone's
really bummed. He's like, come on, this is a party. This is the last of
the money. Let's party here. And they're. All the people he has hired are even
taking up a collection because they see him as like, oh, my God, this guy
just didn't know what to do. Now he has nothing, and he's paid. Yeah.
They couldn't possibly be, like, using it all just to live. Yet they're holding savings,
and so, you know, they're kind of like, oh, I could give a little back.
That's probably fine. I will say, by the way, I recognize the label. The wine
bottles. The champagne bottles. Yeah. Very nice. That is a Tet. The Cuvee from Perrier
Jouer. That is Belle Epoque. That's a very nice bottle of wine. There's like two
to four hundred dollars today. So, you know, he easily could have spent several.
Several thousand just on the champagne at that party. But, yeah, that's actually. I've actually
had that champagne. It's quite nice. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah. And the
party's sad, and everyone tries to help him out, and he's like, no,
I just spend it. I can't be trusted with it. And he seems like
he's really trying to tell Angela. Right. And he's like, oh,
I'm not who you think I am, but I'm not also.
Or he's like, I'm not who you thought I was, but I'm also not who
you think I am right now. Exactly right. He's like, just wait till
tomorrow. Just wait till tomorrow. And I don't know in this universe,
since this is like the sixth version of this that's been made
as a film to this point, the other versions exist because I would
be like, well, I can't tell anyone, but we're going to have a screening of
a movie in my theater and it's brewster millions from 1932.
Right? Yeah. I have to assume that no in the universe in which
Brewsters Millions 1985 exists. The movie Bruce's
Millions 1945 did not come out. But yeah, it's a good point.
Probably could have found some find something similar or like. Or like really? I love
when whenever you're to going given rules of a game and you follow them to
the letter but you break the spirit where it's like it said don't tell anyone.
Well, I didn't, but I did like learn sign language to a
mime and then they told people or something crazy. Yeah, game of telephone. Well,
I didn't tell anyone. I like made pictographs or
something. So he's,
he's done, he thinks he's done. And it shows Angela the accountant going
through and like adding up the last bits of the money and it gets down
to zero. All of his stuff is rented, including the clothes that he had.
So everyone's in the hotel, they're saying, you got to be out of the hotel.
We're taking all these clothes back. Sir, that's yours too. He's in his Cubs
jersey again. He goes into the room that Warren
Cox's wife, I got her name had finally, after making her like
redo and redo and redo this design and he finally looks around, he's like,
oh, here we go, this is perfect. Finally a room I can die in.
She's like, relief. I finally got it right. All right boys,
let's take this stuff out here. And immediately all the stuff gets taken away.
Yeah, it's like it was all rented. It's funny to me because if you enter
into some kind of lease agreement for that furniture, was it a day long lease?
Like it seems like if you entered into it after the first of the 30
days, you're generally renting things for like a month. Right. Or a multiple of months.
No, I requested a 24 day lease. Right.
So, so he's now he's going to the law office and he thinks he's
done like my accounting set. I have no money left. Like I'm going to get
this. And I get there. He gets in the elevator, and Warren
gets in the elevator with him. Yes. And Warren said, oh, hey, Mr. Brewster.
Just in time. I forgot to give you this good news. You don't have
no money. Yeah. Isn't that exciting? The deposit from the furniture. And he hands him
an envelope with $20,000. And we're like, four minutes to midnight here.
So now he has this problem. He has $20,000. And they're of kind.
Kind of telling him, yeah, you lost.
You're screwed. And he's like, what can I do? What can I do?
He ends up telling Warren. Warren, I think,
tells Angela as they're kind of looking through the window as Brewster's about to sign
over the document that says, okay, that's it for I've lost.
Yeah, yeah. He says, okay, well, I can let you in on this secret.
I've been. You know, I'm going to make partner at the firm because I've
helped facilitate his failure in this competition. Now the money's going to get go to
us. And. And she runs in and tries to stop it because she's grown to
care for Monty at this point. Yeah. Well. And because Warren has been.
He's pushing himself away and towards his ex. She would have dumped him either
way. Yeah. Like, if this all had not gone down this way, if Warren had
not revealed to her this, like, little secret. Whatever. I felt like that relationship was
dying anyway. They were both kind of at each other's throats and, like, whatever.
So she really didn't have anything to lose. And then to find out that,
you know, Monty again, who you said, like, you know, she's at least seeing him
as, like, a decent person, maybe a little confused. But now this is all starting
to make sense. Now that Warren's told us, it's like, oh, no wonder. Act like
such a moron. Like, I. The guy that I think he could
be might really be the guy he is. Yeah. And I better go do something
about it. So, yeah, she runs into the room, into the office there and is
like, you know, stop, Whatever. But they. You know, it's like there's this great maybe
90 seconds where nobody knows what to do. Yeah. They're like, they can't think of
anything to do right away, which I think is a fun little, like, stressful moment.
Right. It wasn't an immediate save. No, exactly. And then, you know,
Warren and Brewster feels like, well, I'm screwed anyway, and this Warren guy's
an asshole and calls him out because he knows that Warren's Done it. Even though
they're like, well, even though they cheated, there's nothing we can do. This was the
rule. And Warren. This is where Warren says the racist thing
to them, which I didn't pick up the first time. I saw this as
being like a racial comment. But Angela, who's like,
probably half. She's very light skinned, right. But definitely not
like fully Caucasian. And Brewster, and he says, they say, you know, you're a
jerk, you're a cheater, whatever you are. He's like, oh, better than being a couple
of rabbits. Yeah. Which is like such a bullshit thing
to say because they. It's clearly a racist thing to say. But they could call
him out on. You'd be like, oh, no. I just mean because you're hopping around
all the time. Like the kind of thing where people set themselves up with an
out to say a dirty thing. Some of the grossest old school racism.
Like, Like, I feel like old racism had two flavors. One was the just completely
overt. They would just use horrible slurs for people just openly. Because whatever.
Or there was the really trying to be undercover racism where they say things that
are either like some weird acronym or like some kind of like, yeah, a word
that, you know, on its own is not a bad swear or anything,
so therefore could be like played away. And that's sometimes the more nefarious and shitty
of the racist. You know, terms like the plausible deniability.
Right. Come on, man. Just if you're going to do it full hood on.
Yeah. Get out there. You're going to be a racist. Be a racist. 10 toes
down so the rest of us can fucking see you and get the fuck out
of the way. Go away.
So Montgomery's like, all right, man, I'm knocking this guy out. Punches Warren
out, gives him a good one. Warren's like, you have nothing. I'm going to take
the nothing that you have. I'm going to sue you. I'm going to sue you.
And at the last minute, he says, oh, I'm going to need a lawyer.
Angela, I'm going to hire you as my lawyer. So he pays her the 20,000.
They write a receipt as the clock's about to strike middle night, and boom,
hey, that's it, we're done. And you guys, the law firm, you're in
trouble for trying to fuck with this whole. You've breached your duty. Like, you guys
are in real legal trouble. And now Montgomery Brewster has
$300 million. And now we get to start watching him spend. Oh, no,
no, that's the exact end of the movie. I do love the way Angela,
like, yells, you need a receipt. You need a receipt. She's so
adamant about it. And it's true. Like, he gets the receipt. They just get a
piece of paper and jot it down. And. Yeah. And again, another one of these
movies. We've seen several of these in this series where it's like, man, when it
ends, it just ends. No denouement, there's no post credits,
anything. It's just like, nope. They walk out of that room right to it,
and it's just roll credits. Yeah, that's it. And he. He is now a multi.
Multimillionaire. Yeah, he's got 300 million. And probably in
the timeline of this movie, he has remained mayor of New York to this day.
But he's turned into, like, a really corrupt. Now he's worth. Now he's worth 5
billion. He literally is Eric Adams. Yeah, exactly.
So one thing I wanted to mention so, because, yeah, this was a lot of
fun, but I. So I did not know the Brewster's Millions was a remake initially.
Again, I knew very little about the movie in general, but the version
that came out in 1945, I don't know if you know this, but was banned
in Memphis, Tennessee, for having, and I quote,
too much social equality and racial mixture,
unquote, which is making it an unusual case where a film was banned
for not being racist just enough. That's crazy.
Crazy. Oh, man. Especially because, I mean,
I don't know the. The demographics in 1945, but, like, Memphis is like a very
heavily, like, African American population. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
So for like a minor, a minority of the population to decide something like
that. Right. Where it's like, oh, we don't want these people to see this and
get any ideas. That's more up than, like, I don't want my white kids to
see it. It's pretty bad. Yeah. And. And wanted to point out, since we.
I did the translation right from. From. If you were going to do this movie
today and you wanted to keep the dollars, like, reasonable, this would do. So the
1945 version, the character of Monty Brewster had to spend $1 million in
two months. Okay. Right. And he. If he did, he would earn an inheritance of
$6 million. So that's big, big difference in those four. Big multiple.
85. Yeah, yeah. But do you ever. I always end up seeing
these random, like, normie, like, Facebook posts come through where it's
like, this is a picture of the menu at the Palace Hotel in Chicago
from 1922, you know, and it's like a dozen oysters, 15 cents,
and all that. Lobster thermidor, $5. So to spend a
million bucks in two months, man, that's 45 to do. Crazy. Yeah. So what.
What ideas? Present day, we're trying to. Brewster, like, what are
some of the best ways to spend money without violating the
rules? So what I was thinking of partway through when I realized Brewster had mentioned
starting a company. And I think it was when Spike comes in and he tells
him, I made some investments. Investments. And you've got 10 million extra dollars. It was
that or it was. He invested in the iceberg. We didn't mention this being,
like, moving an iceberg to, like, Sudan or somewhere. Yeah, Middle east,
maybe. I don't exactly. But they were going to move an iceberg so that it
could feed people fresh water. Crazy idea, but whatever. He invests in it, and then
this huge, like, energy company buys the company that he invested in. So therefore,
his stock is now in this huge engine company, and he's. It's worth more and
more money. What I was thinking of at the time is, like, okay, he started
a company, and he's making these investments that are paying off one way or another.
Another. If they were. If all of the things that were
earned during his time with.
In this project were assets of the company.
Okay. So he would still spend the 30 million, but anything that
comes in would be, like, written to the company or owned by the company,
and then he could just be fired. Mm. Wouldn't that mean he
walks away with. No assets, but somebody owns the stock in the company? Yeah,
but I'm saying. Well, okay, but. So it could be a company that he.
He. Yeah, okay. Because then he's given away the stock. You know
what I'm saying? Yeah, I guess that's true. Because even if he got fired as,
like, CEO or chairman or whatever, he would still have to. If he would have
had to give up the ownership some. Okay, all right, so that doesn't work.
Although we did learn from Fletch. You can be the president of a
company and have zero stock. Like, very true Boyd Aviation guy. To be fair,
he was a bit of a nepo. Hi.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like this movie being made before
Bottle surface service and before, like, private rentable
private jets and stuff like that. The first thing I thought when I was just
talking to Heather, my wife, about it was like, does. Why doesn't he just,
like, lease a jet for. For 30 days? Yeah. And it's like, you kind of
couldn't do that in 85, I don't think. Or at least it wasn't. I don't
know. But you could have easily spent many, many years like, I'm going to rent
a super yacht, like a 200 foot super yacht. Rent a G6.
I'm going to spend the Concord. I'm not going to get on either one of
them. Right. Because I'm going to spend my entire time in Vegas, you know,
bottle service. Yeah. And just paying for everybody's drinks at Stadium Swim,
you know, like, that's. That's what happened to do. Yeah, I think that's the way
to go. He could just keep finding big crowds of people to take to lunch,
but he did a good job. I think they did a nice job in this
movie of kind of diversifying the ways that he needed to spend money and then
throwing in this extra kind of plot line of the mayoral race when it seemed
like an hour in. We're like, well, how are we going to keep going with
this? Because the game with the Yankees is coming up and it's like, oh,
that's a great idea to add like an extra bit to the movie. Yeah.
So, yeah, so that's Brewster's Millions. And what
do we. What do we think, Steve? So, yeah, I. This was an interesting one.
So, yeah, it's not coming in with any nostalgia for it. I love John Candy,
but, like, and Richard Pryor is great, but it's not like I've never been like,
a massive, like, Richard Pryor fan. You know, he's just kind of always been there
and been part of a lot of comedy that I love. But, you know,
Candy's fantastic and I'll watch anything John Candy's ever done.
This was okay. This was. This, to me, this was an okay movie. I got
bored in the middle, like, honest, like, definitely got slow in the middle. Kind of
like you said before the mayoral race starts. Starts up, but after, you know,
he's. He's kind of gotten into a groove of spending some money. It's kind of
like, okay, now what? Yeah. And so then they do kick in the. But it
felt like the baseball stuff and the political stuff was sort of in some ways
kind of tacked on. It felt a little out of place. Like, you know,
I mean, I get the characters got to have some life before this happens,
and that's what informs those pieces. But, you know, I thought it was. I thought
it was fun. Nothing about it was like, I mean, I'm positive going to
show My kids this movie I think that they would really enjoy. Especially my son
who's 11. I think he'd really enjoy this movie. And you know, there are definitely
lots of like funny scenes. But I agree with you said earlier like you never.
There wasn't like a lot of laugh out loud moments. Yeah, and I agree with
that. Like there was a lot of. I chuckled about like smiling. Yes,
I definitely like enjoyed it. But to me it was sort of like. Yeah,
I think, I think okay is the best way I can describe it. And yeah,
I think that I'm going to be giving this one a two and a half
out of five. Okay. Right in the middle. Yeah, it's not terrible in any way,
but it's just. It didn't really strike me. But you know, it was a fun
to fun. A fun enough way to spend just over an hour and a half.
Definitely. And I think that it. Looking at who's in it, this is definitely a
whole is lesser than the sum of the parts kind of movie. Right.
But I do enjoy this for what it is.
Just for being like a very easy, like a comfortable kind of lighthearted movie.
Yeah. Nobody's overly mean. There's nothing overly scary, very appropriate for kids
even as young as, you know, seven years old just to. If they would enjoy
it. And then the Moranis thing though
just really got to me this time. That really killed me this time.
But other than that. Yeah, not a ton of laugh out loud. Not the best
utilization of Prior as a comedic actor. But if you were trying to take like
the route that so many, you know, Eddie Murphy, Ice Cube, like people who decide
to go do kids movies after doing like more serious or comedic stuff,
then maybe that's like an avenue that he had envisioned for himself because he
didn't do a ton more. More after this, I believe. Yeah, I'm not 100% sure.
I think he started to decline a little bit health wise. But I'm going
to give this one a three out of five. I think you're right on.
I get an extra half a point just because I remember liking so much as
a kid. But it is fun. It's a New York movie that's not really too
New Yorky. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. And yeah, I don't know.
I mean, just kind of a good time and hard to dislike, I would say.
I agree with that. I think that's the thing. It's. It's, it's sort of.
It's. It's cold pizza of movies where it's like, you know,
you're not going to run home and go, I can't wait for my cold pizza.
But, like, are you going to refuse it? No, of course not. Enjoyable, you know.
And so I feel like that's where I'm at as well. So, yes, we are
five and a half out of ten as a combined score on Brewster's Millions.
Pretty close to IMDb. We're a little under IMDb, but we're
way over that rotten tomato score. We are. We are. So. And I don't think
it deserved that. All that sub 40% rotten tomatoes. That to me is crazy.
It was not like a bad movie. Yeah, that seemed a little rough. That seemed.
And, you know, maybe they were just curmudgeonly film reviewers who didn't like
remakes and stuff like that, just like there are now. And not that that's a
wrong opinion to have, you know. So. So what do we have coming up next,
Steve? We did Brewster's Millions. My pick. We got next next week. What do we
have coming up from you? All right, so from me, we're going to go away
from a remake and we're going to a movie that is an original from the
mid-90s, but has a sequel coming up. And that's the reason that I've picked
it for our next week. So, yeah, a little over a week from today,
if you're listening to this, on the day it comes out, Happy Gilmore 2 comes
out. So before that happens, we're gonna watch Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler,
Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Carl Weathers. This is like,
you know, Bob Barker. This is a great movie. One, you know, I think it
was hard to be a guy our age in the 90s and not love Adam
Sandler. Oh, for sure, yeah. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, the water boy.
I mean, even Big Daddy, which was, you know, maybe aimed at a slightly older
audience, but, you know, this is good stuff. And, you know, another, another sports movie.
We're going to baseball, to golf and kind of hockey a little bit, right?
Yeah, just a little bit. But, yeah, super excited. It's one that
I'm a big fan of and I think this is, you know, I'll be honest,
I picked it because of the timing with the sequel coming out. We've talked a
lot about not recognizing certain sequels and remakes as we've
talked about movies, but I'm fingers crossed. I'm hopeful that Happy Gilmore at least to
be watchable. And so in preparation, we'll go and watch the original. Excellent. I'm very
excited about Happy Gilmore. We'll love to talk to you about that one, Steve.
You know, good stuff. All right. Well, this was Brewster's Millions
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