This is one of my favorite Burt Reynolds' movies ever. I saw it when I was very little at the theater and just thought Dom DeLuise and all the craziness were funny. Saw it on cable a few years later and realized the whole darn thing is hilarious. Too many crazy lines to even quote one. Burt and Dom must be honorized as one of the funniest late seventies comedy duo's! You must see it!
shareYes, I agree, this movie is one of my favorites, too. I love the line, "you can crack your head open, just like a walnut".
shareOr how about when Burt is attempting escape from the insane asylum and Dom calls out across the greens...
"That man's nuts! Grab 'im!"
And then Dom self-conciously reaches for his crotch. A perfectly juvenile and witty play on words. I love this movie.
reading this post made me realize i havent seen this movie in 20 yrs.
yet the jokes and scenes are still fresh in my head, dom was awesome
i so want to see it again!
THAT MAN'S NUTS! GRAB'UM (OUCH!)
LOL! Great movie! I love it!
shareI saw this movie again today for the first time in decades, and it dawned on me: Robin Williams owes a great deal to Dom DeLuise!
shareWilliams is more like Jonathan Winters than Dom Deluise. They're similar, but if you watch Winters a lot, you'll see Williams and Winters are pretty much brothers from different mothers.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
I just bought this movie on Deep Discount DVD for a very cheap price. It was worth the money (of course!) but the wait was so hard!
shareThis was definitely a forgotten gem from the Burt Reynolds library and probably his best directorial effort. It also featured the performance of a lifetime from Dom DeLouise as Marlon...a comic tour de force that must be seen to be believed.
shareI cannot agree more. Dom is great!
share"How do you sing the Polish national anthem? You don't sing it, you fart it!"
"Its five minutes before nine, in Paris." -- Serrano/Manzon
"He was sitting watching TV in his favorite sweaty undershirt, and eating chili with his fingers... so I reached around his 22 inch neck, and I choked him!"
"You were right, it's not high enough!"
This film is piss your pants funny!!!
Love the opening scene through the fish tank.
Burt:"I'm a big guy. You know what I mean. I'm a strong guy. Now tell me. How long have I got?"
Doctor:"Let's say you got a year."
Burt:"AAAAAHHHHHAAAAA, OH MY GOD!!!!!A YEAR TO LIVE!!!!! OH, NOOOO!!!AAAAAAHHHHAAA!!!!!!![Curious look at the fish]
Also the line. From Dom in the nuthouse. "There's a lot of crazies around here."
Burt calling the suicide hotline and gets pull on hold.
Burt downin the pills with sour milk."PHEWWW!!!! ARRGG!!!! PTHWE!!! CACA!! AAAARGG!!!"
Burt talking to his lawyer.
Lawyer:"How come you didn't tell me you were sick?"
Burt:[mad]"I TRIED TO TELL YOU!! I THREW UP IN YOUR DESK!!"
Lawyer: "That was you?"
Burt:"YES!!"
Burt's whole monologue and talk with God. "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou.....I'll learn the 10 commandments and then I'll obey every f ucking one of them!!!"
Dom to Burt: I am in the east wing. TaaaDaaa
Dom D. to Burt (who is try to asphyxiate himself): Oh no! Don't hold your breath. You'll just pass out and wake up with a headache.
Burt to the doctor: I didn't know I was sick. I just thought I found a new way to lose weight: throwing up.
Burt: I'm going away.(he doesn't want to tell her he's dying.)I'm going to Bakersfield.
Kristy (daughter): You make sound like someplace awful.
Burt: Have you ever been to Bakersfield?
Dom to Burt about Dom's dad: Everytime I bring anyone over he challenges them to a nose picking contest....and he always wins!
Robby Benson does a great job of playing a very young, naiive priest who is totally absorbed listening to Burt's confessions.
and so many more...
"I told him, in a very nice way, what a STUPID IDIOT he was..."
Great movie.
Dom was awesome in this.
shareLawyer: "What are you talking about?"
Burt: "I'm talking about dying."
Lawyer: "What is that supposed to mean?"
Burt: "It means you lay in the ground with dirt on your face and you hold your breath forever."
I was so pleased to see this movie on cable this past weekend. I watched this as a kid in the way way early cable TV years, my dad laughed like hell so this pretty much defined my sense of humor for the rest of my life.
Compared with Dom and Burt, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor come off saccharine and innocent. Burt Reynolds was so vicious!
I love how many of the jokes don't translate after 30 years. Who the heck tells Polish jokes anymore?? Polish jokes and suicide... how does that even add up to a movie? And the sweaty, leathery sex scene with Sally Fields at the beginning was so damn unsexy! But the chemistry was awesome, love this movie, love this movie!
At the time this came out I was already a die hard Burt fan. I was only 14 when it came out, but my parents were kind enough to let me see it. It was very funny then and now that I'm 45, it's even funnier now.
Last night I was watching and my dog came in the room. She listened to the guy making the bird noises, I about died the way she turned her head back and forth...getting tears from laughter in my eyes as I type this! :D
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I was never a huge Burt Reynolds fan, but I do think this is some of his best work. Funny movie.
shareI have such fond memories of watching this movie on network and syndicated TV back in the very early 1980s with my parents. Saw it several times and both my parents and I just loved it...of course it was the censored version, but it was still hilarious.
Only in recent years had I seen the uncut theatrical version and it only got better.
Such a wonderful cast including Strother Martin, James Best, Carl Reiner, Robbie Benson, Norman Fell--a real treat seeing Myrna Loy and Pat O'Brien!
So many memorable lines--too many to quote.
Just saw this again tonight on cable and it's just as enjoyable as it was 30 years ago. Without question my all-time favorite Burt Reynolds movie.
"Looks at all that color...looks like Walt Disney threw up."
I just watched this today for my first time, funny as hell!
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