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Brewster's Millions

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Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

Status: Released

Released Date: 1985-05-22

Runtime: 97 mins

Director: Walter Hill

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy

Original title: Brewster's Millions

Production Companies: Silver Pictures, Universal Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Richard Pryor

John Candy

Lonette McKee

Stephen Collins

Jerry Orbach

Pat Hingle

Tovah Feldshuh

Hume Cronyn

Joe Grifasi

Peter Jason

David White

Jerome Dempsey

David Wohl

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Reviews

JPV852

Incredibly fun, and funny, film from the great Richard Pryor who has never been better. Got a good laugh throughout the whole movie and even though the third act wasn't exactly a surprise, still found this to be a great vehicle for Pryor as well as for Walter Hill's direction. **4.25/5**

2020-01-04

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