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Big Trouble

2002 · 85 min

A chaotic, joke-packed romp where a huge cast collides in increasingly silly ways, keeping you amused but rarely tense.

Directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Tagline
They have forty-five minutes to save the world. They need forty-six.
Overview
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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Directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld
Genres
Comedy, Crime
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • deception
  • family
  • love
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • suburbs
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror1
Humour8
Realism4
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, crime
Directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by
Matthew Stone, Robert Ramsey
Starring
Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Ben Foster, Jason Lee, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel, Janeane Garofalo
Music
James Newton Howard
Cinematography
Greg Gardiner
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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