80's Month continues with today's movie, 1986's The Money Pit.
Tom Hanks plays an attorney named Walter Fielding who, along with his classical musician girlfriend Anna (played by Shelley Long), purchases a large house for a fraction of it's estimated value. It seems too good to be true and, of course, it is. This is one of those comedy films where everything that can go wrong does and, while a lot of the time I'm not a big fan that type of movie, I get a few good laughs out of this one. So, the couple moves into the home and things quickly start falling apart; Walter starts repairing a step on the staircase and pretty soon the whole thing collapses, Anna turns on the water for the bathtub and sludge comes out, then that night during a thunderstorm the roof leaks in dozens of places, etc.
Well, they soon realize there are just too many problems for them to handle so they start calling in plumbers and carpenters and pretty soon the whole house is under major reconstruction. All the while Anna's ex-husband, a conductor named Max Beissart (played by Alexander Godunov), is trying to get her to leave Walter. Jump to four months later and the constant repair work, which was expected to take "two weeks" (a running joke in the film), is taking it's toll on Walter and Anna's relationship and they decide that once the house is finished they're going to sell it and go their separate ways. Of course once the house is completed they make up and the whole ordeal, as hard as it was, is something they went through together.
Overall, while I don't love the movie, I do find it pretty entertaining and anyone who has ever had to do any kind of home repair can definitely sympathizes especially with Tom Hanks' character.
I give this one a 3 out of 5.
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