Deleted Scenes
Like many other movies, scenes were deleted due to time restrictions for The Money Pit.
That's a real shame the DVD doesn't include them.
In 1996 ABC was showing the movie in primetime and to cover the timeslot in its entirety they added two deleted scenes!
I don't know if you saw those... Deleted scene #1 comes right after Jack the real estate agent is all happy that he sold the house. Walter and Anna are driving to their new home in the car that came with the bargin deal. Walter picks up Anna in his arms and enter. A few seconds later we can hear that the old Lincoln convertible backfires.
Deleted scene #2 comes right after deleted scene 1. The couple are in their living room lying down on the floor, drinking wine or something in little bottles (not glasses... are they THAT poor?) I remember vaguely what they were saying... but they decided to spend the night downstairs.
It's a shame that this particular scene was cut for the final film because the very first incident happens here. As they were going up for the bedroom the a step cracks down. That's because Walter, with Anna in his arms were staying on that step for too long.. and of course the staircase cannot handle a great deal of weight. Walter then decided to fix the stair the morning after. That's the reason why we see him fixing the step two scenes after this one, and the reason they spent the night in the living room. Makes sense, Anna tries the bed for the first time the day after. Walter refers to that step at the end of the movie, where he says that this was the step that started to turn to crap. In the Making of (on the DVD) director Richard Benjamin did say that the first incident was the step.
This aired on ABC in 1996 and I never saw those again.
Another deleted scene that I never saw ever was that Maureen Stapleton's character is showing the dining room to Walter and Anna. This happens right after the "Floor Polish" line. If you can hear it very closely, the voice is dubbed. While we hear "The Bedroom's up here", Stapleton actually says "The Dining Room is over there" at the shooting of the scene. the voice was easy to dub too because at the moment of the delivery of the line we cannot see her lips move from the camera angle. And then the deleted scene follows.
See this site
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=8128&movie%5Fnss=45
For pictures of the shooting of the deleted scenes. Some great stuff there.
I'm hoping someday a Special Edition of the Money Pit will come to DVD.... with the deleted scenes.