Oscar (1991)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

John Landis

Writers (WGA):

Claude Magnier (play)
Michael Barrie (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

26 April 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

It's a comedy of criminal proportions!

Plot:

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman...

Plot Keywords:

Promise | Farce | Italy | Lie | Double Wedding

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Sylvester Stallone	...	Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone
Ornella Muti	...	Sofia Provolone
Don Ameche	...	Father Clemente
Peter Riegert	...	Aldo
Tim Curry	...	Dr. Thornton Poole
Vincent Spano	...	Anthony Rossano
Marisa Tomei	...	Lisa Provolone
Eddie Bracken	...	Five Spot Charlie
Linda Gray	...	Roxanne
Chazz Palminteri	...	Connie
Kurtwood Smith	...	Lt. Toomey, Chicago PD
Yvonne De Carlo	...	Aunt Rosa
Ken Howard	...	Kirkwood
William Atherton	...	Overton
Martin Ferrero	...	Luigi Finucci

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Silver Screen Partners IV

Trivia:

The club where Anthony tells Angelo Provolone he met his daughter is called Club 33, which is a real private club hidden in Disneyland.

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Aldo makes reference to Little Anthony and his Imperial. While we take this as an anachronistic reference to the doo-wop group, he could have meant it only as a reference to the car, so it's not wrong for him.

Quotes:

Snaps: I'm used to dealing with mobsters and bootleggers and gunsles but you bankers, scary.

Movie Connections:

References My Fair Lady (1964)

Soundtrack:

LARGO AL FACTOTUM

Who'd have thought Sly could be so hilarious?

I am very selective about the movies I buy for my personal library, and this one passed. The whole movie takes place between 8:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon, and the twists and complications never stop. It's packed with memorable one-liners and hilarious images: former hit-men being butlers and making fruit salad, a linguist (Tim Curry) whose unsolicited grammar corrections keep getting misunderstood, the melodramatic daughter (Marisa Tomei) of a gangster named after a cheese.

Few movies carry this many successive gut laughs. It's quite an ab workout. It's also comparitively clean—five or six swear words and some allusions to premarital pregnancy and activities. I highly recommend it.