They have forty-five minutes to save the world. They need forty-six.
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
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Character
Contemporary, spare, unpretentious and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Tim AllenEliot Arnold
- Rene RussoAnna Herk
- Ben FosterMatt Arnold
- Jason LeePuggy
- Stanley TucciArthur Herk
- Dennis FarinaHenry Desalvo
- Zooey DeschanelJenny Herk
- Janeane GarofaloMonica Romero
- Sofía VergaraNina
- Tom SizemoreSnake
Crew
- Barry SonnenfeldDirector
- Robert RamseyScreenplay
- Matthew StoneScreenplay
- Dave BarryNovel
- Greg GardinerDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Steven WeisbergEditor
- Barry SonnenfeldProducer
- Tom JacobsonProducer
- Barry JosephsonProducer
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