Synopsis
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
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Cast
- Richard PryorMontgomery Brewster
- John CandySpike Nolan
- Lonette McKeeAngela Drake
- Stephen CollinsWarren Cox
- Jerry OrbachCharley Pegler
- Pat HingleEdward Roundfield
- Tovah FeldshuhMarilyn
- Hume CronynRupert Horn
- Joe GrifasiJ.B. Donaldo
- Peter JasonChuck Fleming
Recommendations
- 63
Miami Herald
Pryor and director Walter Hill do a competent job collaborating on comic pace in Brewster's Millions. But the screenplay by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris isn't audacious enough to twist the ending and let Pryor's character grow. Brewster's Millions is a pleasant summer laugh, but it's not comedy that bites. - 60
Empire
A satisfying come-down by the director, who stays safely within, rather than pushes against comedy conventions. - 60
Washington Post
It's an amusing vehicle for Pryor and Candy, amiable partners wallowing in monetary ecstasy. [24 May 1985, p.25] - 50
Chicago Tribune
Brewster's Millions is a PG film, and the humor is sanitized. Pryor grins, Candy gurgles and we sit there stone-faced noticing all the holes in the plot. Once Pryor figures out a clever way to spend money by using rare stamps on letters, why doesn't he keep on doing it? Yes, that might make for a short movie, but given the way Brewster's Millions turned out, it would be no great loss. [22 May 1985, p.3] - 40
Variety
It’s hard to believe a comedy starring Richard Pryor and John Candy is no funnier than this one is, but director Walter Hill has overwhelmed the intricate genius of each with constant background action, crowd confusions and other endless distractions. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Normally, this situation comedy would provide its own built-in laughs, but here the situations are dominated by Pryor's forced, manic behavior, which removes him from empathy and offers the subservient story nothing more than casual interest. - 40
Time Out
The ideas here aren't nearly up to the scratch that writers Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris established in Trading Places. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Brewster's Millions isn't bad so much as flat. And flat comedy has about the appeal of flat champagne.
