Cinema: Coming Unglued the Money Pit

Directed by Richard Benjamin Screenplay by David Giler

When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal.

Their problems start with some little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the...

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