The last scene reveals what happens to the main characters: after chasing down a plane, subduing two criminals, and saving Miami from a nuclear disaster, Eliot finally won Matt's respect. In the novel, it is. Tired of his constant fixation on drinking and television, Herk's wife Anna and daughter Jenny decide to find new love interests in divorced dad Eliot Arnold and his son Matt. There aren't any actual terrorists in the film, no Arabs or other Middle-Eastern types with evil on their mind, just silly characters. Richter also plays Rick, Jack's twin brother, an equally incompetent security guard at the airport. They claim their Miami job was the lowest point in their careers. The convicts force Arthur to return to his home, where they capture everyone and tie them up.
His teenage son Matt thinks he is a dork. Arthur's wife Anna, along with his daughter Jenny, stray into new romantic involvements, while a couple of small-time criminals enter the picture. It was directed by and featured a large cast including , , , , and. Scramble together polite hit men, smart-ass teens, a corrupt businessman, dumb ex-cons, a wacked-out hippie, scruffy Russian arms dealers, goofy cops, a journalist-turned-adman, some goats and a psychedelic toad, add a nuclear device that looks like a garbage disposal, cook in the Miami sun and voilà: Hilarity ensues. They bump into Officer Romero, and Special Agents Greer and Seitz, knocking the hitmen's Remington sniper rifle out of their golf bag in the process. One of them is Arthur Herk, an alcoholic, television-addled businessman who's not averse to operating just beyond the bounds of the law and good manners. It would seem to the casual moviegoer that Eliot Arnold is the Dave Barry figure in the movie, since he closely resembles the author, but, no, it's Puggy.
They free Monica and have her lead them to the airport leaving Arthur, as he was poisoned by a , causing him to think that his dog is possessed by. Like much of Dave Barry's fiction, it follows a diverse group of people through a series of extremely strange and humorous situations against the backdrop of. I really enjoyed this film. The criminals pass through security with Puggy and Jenny, where the bomb is inadvertently triggered and its 45-minute timer begins; Puggy manages to escape in the confusion of boarding the plane. But these are terrorists and bombs from a simpler and more innocent time.
Eliot, having sneaked onto the plane, attacks the criminals by knocking Eddie out with a fire extinguisher and blasting the extinguisher at Snake. The two hitmen manage to escape Miami after a series of very weird events. Overview It may enjoy gentle ocean breezes, white sand beaches and lovely swaying palms, but Miami gets more than its share of skulduggery, and seems to have no shortage of lowlifes in high stations. She falls in love with Puggy, who she initially mistook for. Matt and Jenny run away and eventually return to the Herk house, followed by officers Monica and Walter, who stumble across the confusion. It's nice to be reminded of that time.
Walter, after a forced strip search by the airport guards, becomes a male stripper and marries. Eddie goes back to jail in a prison outside of , but becomes friends with another dimwitted inmate who shares the same affinity for crude jokes as Eddie does. Herk is a rich man who owes money to the wrong people and wants to buy a bomb. By , hitmen are also there to assassinate Arthur Herk, who has secretly embezzled money from his company, Penultra Corp. And and as two cops who answer a call to the Herk home. I think I hear one of them silent alarms. On hearing the case is a bomb, Eliot hurls it out of the still open rear door, only for Snake to leap after it.
Asks his partner Romero out on dates even though he's married. And as Nina, the Herks' maid, who Arthur wants to have sex with. Nina, who was hiding in her room, frees everyone except for Monica and Arthur who were handcuffed to an entertainment system. He sees Matt pointing a squirt gun at Jenny and gives chase while shooting at them with his handgun. At the same time, two hit men want him whacked. During the chaos of the assassination attempts, Matt's friend, Andrew, called Eliot Arnold, Matt's father.
Despite Eliot's insistence that the case is a bomb, Snake opens fire on him which prompts Eliot to pull the emergency lever which decouples the door. In a memorable feat of dumb luck, Snake manages to cling onto the door's steps. Box Office This website does not own, host or upload any videos. A chain of events starts with the arrival of a mysterious suitcase in Miami. The movie is a reminder of an age when such plots were obviously not to be taken seriously.
Advertisement All of these positions, which make perfect sense, only infuriate the cop, tax man, spouse, etc. As a sane voice in a world gone mad, Barry alone sees clearly. For rest of the episodes, we provide direct link to original creator website. Think Elmore Leonard meets Donald Westlake, and you've got an idea of the kind of plot and quirky characters you're in for. They were surrounded by the fans of on their plane home which was a constant joke in the film. Consequently, the film was pushed back until April 2002, and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. Upon arriving to pick up Matt from the Herks', Eliot immediately feels a mutual attraction to Anne Herk, Jenny's mother, as Matt and Jenny begin to feel attracted to each other as well.
In the film, Monica Romero never boards the plane. He also develops a crush on her. When the fake attempt crosses paths with the real one, police officers Monica Romero and Walter Kramitz are called out to the resulting disturbance. In the novel the two are brothers but not twins. The genius of Dave Barry is that he applies a logical and helpful analysis to a situation that can only be worsened by such intervention. Romero grabs the rifle, removes its bolt rendering it useless , and returns it.