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Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Paul Dooley ... see more see more... , Robert Stack , Valerie Curtin , Richard Libertini , Steve Alterman , Jerry Pavlon , Paul La Greca , John Finnegan , Karl Lukas , Gloria E. Gifford , Domingo Ambriz , Herb Armstrong , Maryedith Burrell , Luis Contreras , Edith Fields , Jeffrey Howard , Al Leong , Gaetano Lisi , Irene Olga Lopez , Joseph Medalis , Dennis Phun , Jaime Sánchez , Barbara Tarbuck , Theodore Wilson , Steve Lambert , Howard Clapp , Daphne Eckler , Conroy Gedeon , Lenny Geer , Chester Grimes , Melvin Jones , Warren Munson , Carol Reinhard , Rosemarie Stack , Richard Walter , Al White , Walter Soo Hoo , Leland Sun

It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are respectively cast as a shady wheeler-dealer and an uptight family man. Strapped for... read more read more... the cash necessary to send his son to Yale, Arkin reluctantly enters into a murder scheme with Beverly D'Angelo. She is married to Falk, who, though he hasn't got long to live due to a heart ailment, may very well spend every penny D'Angelo has before he expires. Arkin is persuaded to kill Falk before this happens, then split the money with D'Angelo. To Arkin's amazement he finds himself the victim of a carefully prepared confidence scam engineered by Falk and D'Angelo. Now that he has a hold over Arkin, Falk gets the poor fellow mixed up in yet another "perfect crime". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: John Cassavetes

Release Date: May 30, 1986

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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August 30, 2006
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Cassavetes here applies his remarkable talent for social observation in a light-comedy context and creates one of the strangest, and in many ways most frustrating, screen comedies in recent years. Full Review

Chris Robe
August 30, 2006
Chris Robe, PopMatters

It's distressing that his last film, Big Trouble, appears to capitulate to just that sort of formula. Full Review

James Rocchi
November 7, 2002
James Rocchi, Netflix

Sprawling comedy has a few laughs in it -- and the specter of recent events hanging over it. Full Review

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