Directed by:
Jerry ZuckerScreenplay:
Andy BreckmanCinematography:
Thomas E. AckermanComposer:
John PowellCast:
Breckin Meyer, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Dave Thomas, Amy Smart (more)VOD (1)
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A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an eccentric casino owner who devises a contest pitting six teams against each other in a race to claim two million dollars from a locker in New Mexico. The competitors are Owen (Cuba Gooding Jr., who ends up driving a bus full of Lucille Ball imitators, a foreigner (Rowan Atkinson) who hitches a ride in an organ donor vehicle, and a recently reunited mother and daughter (Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman) who anger a "squirrel lady" (Kathy Bates) -- much to their regret. There are also two con artist brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf), the upright Nick (Breckin Meyer), who gets a lift from cute but psychotic pilot Tracy (Amy Smart), and the eccentric Pear family, headed up by Jon Lovitz. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Breckin Meyer
USA
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
USA
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Seth Green
USA
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Vince Vieluf
USA
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Jon Lovitz
USA
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Kathy Najimy
USA
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Rowan Atkinson
UK
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John Cleese
UK
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Dave Thomas
Canada
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Amy Smart
USA
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Dean Cain
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Paul Rodriguez
Mexico
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Kathy Bates
USA
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USA
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Rick Cramer
USA
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Kathleen Marshall
Canada
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Colleen Camp
USA
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Silas Weir Mitchell
USA
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Brandy Ledford
USA
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