Synopsis
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
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Cast
- Tom HanksWalter Fielding, Jr.
- Shelley LongAnna Crowley
- Alexander GodunovMax Beissart
- Maureen StapletonEstelle
- Joe MantegnaArt Shirk
- Philip BoscoCurly
- Josh MostelJack Schnittman
- Yakov SmirnoffShatov
- Carmine CaridiBrad Shirk
- Brian BackerEthan
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out London
You can see it coming, but it still has the delicious anticipation of the slow burn. And it all gets much worse. Director Richard Benjamin has the rare gift of knowing just where the funnybone lies, a certain taste for Keaton-esque slapstick, and a very fine comic performer in Hanks. - 75
The A.V. Club
It’s not high art or sophisticated humor, but there are just enough clever turns in its physical comedy and insight into relationships to give it a bit of cult status. - 63
Miami Herald
Its situation and its sight gags are marvelous, recalling the best of Spielberg's 1941. But like that movie, The Money Pit is disconnected; pieces seem missing, and subplots seem to have been abandoned in a rush. [28 Mar 1986, p.D5] - 60
The New York Times
If you can imagine a remake of Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist in which the spirits of the dead have been shoved aside by equally loud, unruly plumbers and carpenters, you'll have some idea of The Money Pit. - 60
Los Angeles Times
The Money Pit grows increasingly mechanical, both in its content and in the resolution of its plot, as the effects start overwhelming this essentially modest little romantic comedy. - 50
Washington Post
The Money Pit is Richard Benjamin's attempt to make a '30s comedy through the lens of Steven Spielberg -- there are contraptions and "smart" dialogue and, unfortunately, nothing to hold them together. [28 Mar 1986, p.D2] - 40
Empire
This has some very, very funny bits...interspersed with a very slight film. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
While there is some imagination behind the destruction of the title abode, the film quickly grows into a tired repetition of one long joke.
