Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Tom Hanks Hustle: The Money Pit

FINALLY!



Yes, FINALLY, out of the weird rut of "not so great" movies of Mr. Tom Hanks!

We get to a movie, that I personally love, from 1986 The Money Pit. 


The Money Pit is the story of a young couple find themselves almost homeless. Anna Crowley and her boyfriend David Fielding are subletting an apartment from Anna's ex-husband. They had an agreement that she could live there for one year and find an apartment before he gets back. Their year is up and they have no apartment. David's real estate friend tells them about this "great" place that is a Million Dollar home on the market for $200,000 dollars. They look at it and meet the owner who says she has to sell it fact. They fall in love with the house and decide to buy. They find soon enough that their great place is not so great after all. They start on a comical journey that will to see if their relationship survive with the ruins around them. 

This movie I think might not a major classic in the future but I think it will be more well known as the years go on. At least that is what I hope for. The Money Pit will always hold a special place in my heart. Any movie that someone I love tells me that I should watch I always try to watch and it's something special. This movie was shared to me by my Best Friend's mom Jeannie.


I was talking to her and Alaina one day about how I really did like movies from the 80s very much.
I thought they were all super cheesy and ridiculous. I got this information because of movies like 16 Candles and The Breakfast Club. Yes, I know I need to watch these again and see if I like them better, and I will try. Jeannie did not like the fact that I said this and said that I just needed to watch a good one. She made list, that is somewhere on her phone I think and has since long been opened. She picked two movies from the list and we did a double feature. We watched The Lost Boys and The Money Pit. 

I liked The Lost Boys, never really got into the whole vampire thing even in my generation of movies, however, I Loved The Money Pit. This was the first Tom Hanks film that I saw when he was younger. I will restate that I am one of the few people on Earth who has still not seen the movie Big. So, seeing him this young in the movie was something that I had to get used to. I thought the movie was hilarious then and I think it was even funnier the second time around. 

I mean come on...


This is what we expect in a Tom Hanks Comedy. It's not slap stick but not all dry humor either! It's the perfect combination of clever meets bad luck. 



Well, until the next Tom Hanks movie! See ya later!







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