In the end that was a good thing as I had a solid belly laugh or two while watching it this time around. A mob courier is hired to transport the heads of eight murder victims to a mob boss. The film revolves around Spinelli harassing Charlie's friends Ernie and Steve for information, while Charlie and Laurie attempt to get rid of their rather unfortunate luggage. Charlie comes up with a plan to save both their lives. While on a commercial flight, his bag is accidentally switched with that of Charlie Pritchett , a friendly, talkative, young American tourist who is going to to see his girlfriend Laurie and her parents and.
This begins the comedic moments where different people discover the heads, a dog tries to abscond with a head and various things happen to cause heads to go missing. It all ends in hilarity in some of the darkest comedy ever put on screen. Mafioso Tommy Joe Pesci is transporting eight severed heads of recently executed rival mobsters to San Diego. At the airport in San Diego Tommy grabs the wrong bag. Charlie thanks him for his help, as Tommy departs to Hawaii. The film holds a rating of 11% rotten at based on 18 reviews. Charlie and Laurie get married, with her mother and father present, Steve is in a straitjacket, Ernie is a brain surgeon, Fern is also present after being thrown out of a moving van when she started to bad-mouth Tommy, and Tommy is enjoying his retirement.
On the plane he sits next to Charlie Andy Comeau , a pre-med student on his way to spend the weekend with his girlfriend Laurie Kristy Swanson and her parents Dick and Annette George Hamilton and Dyan Cannon in Mexico. When Fern, Dick's mother, arrives in Mexico, Tommy takes her and the others hostage as he helps Charlie find more heads. Finding the book Charlie was writing in the other bag Tommy must now figure out where to find him. Twilight Time is releasing this film and has done an excellent job on the transfer, but then what else would we expect of them? When his duffel bag is mixed up with that of medical student Charlie Andy Comeau , Tommy tracks down Charlie's friends Ernie David Spade and Steve Todd Louiso. After Charlie meets with Laurie and her parents at the airport with the wrong bag, they go to their rooms at the resort in Acapulco, Mexico. His time on the airplane both in getting the heads on and the problems he encounters there off the first few laughs. The worst part of the film: Comeau.
They find out that a coyote took one of the heads from the stolen car. Tommy is he sort of guy who has few manners if any and is used to getting his way. Before Tommy can intervene, Laurie's mother Dyan Cannon finds the heads. In turn, everyone packs up for the airport. Then Charlie comes up with an idea that he will give back the heads without anyone noticing, by pretending he forgot to turn in his report back at his college.
In the meantime Charlie has arrived in Mexico to be greeted by Laurie and her parents. Eventually circumstances result in his carryon bag being pushed back to luggage which is what starts his problems. After kidnapping them, he goes after Charlie, who is vacationing in Mexico with his fiancée, Laurie Kristy Swanson , and her hostile parents. Tommy also realizes that Benny and Rico are going to kill him if he doesn't get the heads across the border in time. A call to his dorm room results in a less than helpful roommate David Spade hanging up on him causing Tommy to catch a flight to the college to extract information. However, the mother is a recovering alcoholic whom everyone believes is delusional when she claims to have found heads.
After hearing of the airport incident, Benny and Rico decide to collect the heads for themselves. At the airport, Charlie accidentally puts a severed head in Dick's carry-on bag, causing him to get arrested. After kidnapping them, he goes after Charlie, who is vacationing in Mexico with his fiancée, Laurie Kristy Swanson , and her hostile parents. They never leave Acapulco since they have to come up with a new plan to save Dick. Cast: , , , , , , , Director: Genres: Production Co: Orion Pictures, Rank Organization Keywords: , , , , , , , ,.
They start to look in a cryonics lab, where they store bodies and severed heads, much to Tommy's approval. Tommy treats Charlie with the same disdain he does everyone. Meanwhile, Tommy, Ernie, and Steve start to look for replacement heads, after Charlie tells Tommy he lost one. Extras as is often the case are limited with just the original theatrical trailer and an isolated score track. The film ends when Charlie and Laurie take a severed head to the airport to prove her father's innocence.
There he gets the news from Laurie that she intends to break up with him. Eventually the two characters and their accompanying groups merge once more as well as the original killers now wondering why Tommy has yet to deliver the heads. Before Tommy can intervene, Laurie's mother Dyan Cannon finds the heads. Tommy threatens Charlie that if he loses more heads, he'll replace them with Charlie's friends and family. On a commercial flight, the head-stuffed bag gets switched with one belonging to a young man Andy Comeau on his way to visit his girlfriend Kristy Swanson and her parents George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon ; hijinks ensue. When his duffel bag is mixed up with that of medical student Charlie Andy Comeau , Tommy tracks down Charlie's friends Ernie David Spade and Steve Todd Louiso.
It is revealed that Tommy and Charlie set them up. Benny and Rico try to intervene, but end up getting arrested. Soon, Annette, Laurie's mom, mistakenly thinks that Charlie might be a serial killer on the run once she sees a head in his bag while hiding a gift for him inside the bag. . At first, Charlie and Laurie tried to bury the heads in the desert, but a group of thugs steals their car.