Opportunity Knocks [Blu-ray]

Director: Donald Petrie Donald Petrie

Overview

Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey had his first leading role on the big screen in this comedy. Eddie (Carvey) and Lou (Todd Graff) are a pair of small-time con artists deep in debt to Pinkie (Mike Bacarella), a loan shark. During a lean period, Eddie and Lou resort to breaking and entering to make some money, but as they're clearing out a house, they overhear the answering machine announce that the owner is away on business for a few weeks -- and the housesitter won't be able to stop by. Eddie and Lou settle in and enjoy their good fortune, which just gets better when Milt (Robert Loggia) pays a visit. Milt assumes that Eddie is the housesitter, who is a close friend of his son. Eddie is soon introduced to Milt's beautiful daughter, Annie (Julia Campbell), and Milt decides that Eddie is executive material at his successful manufacturing firm. Soon Eddie starts to wonder if he should go on lying to the people he's come to like -- and there's the little matter of the 60,000 dollars that Eddie and Lou swiped from Pinkie's car. Opportunity Knocks also features Milo O'Shea and James Tolkan.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/04/2019
UPC:	0683904633965
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Ushe
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	18,086

Special Features

Deleted scenes; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dana Carvey	Eddie Farrell
Robert Loggia	Milt Malkin
Todd Graff	Lou Pasquino
Julia Campbell	Annie Malkin
Milo O'Shea	Max
James Tolkan	Sal Nichols
Doris Belack	Mona Malkin
Sally Gracie	Connie
Mike Bacarella	Pinkie
John M. Watson Sr.	Harold Monroe
Beatrice Fredman	Bubbie
Thomas McElroy	Men's Room Attendant
Jack McLaughlin-Gray	Wine Steward
Gene Honda	Japanese Businessman
Del Close	Williamson
Michael Oppenheimer	Chase
Paul Greatbatch	Driver
Sarajane Avidon	Commissioner's Secretary
Jed Mills	Club MC
Michelle Johnston	Club Singer
Bill Bradshaw	David
John Cothran Jr.	Building Commissioner
Tal Galomb	Bar Mitzvah Boy
James Hassett	Vendor
Mark Hutter	Stan
Joshua Livingstone	Nathan
Jill Shellabarger	Ginger
Adam Jason Weiss	Myron
Lorna Raver Johnson	Eddie's Secretary
Michelle Quigley	Woman at Accident
Judith Scott	Milt's Secretary
Mark Ross	Jonathan
Mindy Bell	Executive
Richard Steven Mann	Executive
Kent Logsdon	Sales Associate
Pennington McGee	Actor
Ron Max	Sal's Associate
Rebecca Cagen	Bar Mitzvah Band
Don Cagen	Bar Mitzvah Band
Paul Dallas	Bar Mitzvah Band
Randy Harrah	Bar Mitzvah Band
Peter Hennes	Bar Mitzvah Band
Steven Zoloto	Bar Mitzvah Band
Miles Goodman	Composer

Technical Credits

Nat Bernstein

Mitchel Katlin

Donald Petrie	Director
Sam Barkan	Special Effects
Mark R. Gordon	Producer,Producer
Brad Grey	Executive Producer
Christopher Meledandri	Producer
Ernie Orsatti	Stunts
Nat Bernstein	Screenwriter
Mitchel Katlin	Screenwriter
Ray Hartwick	Producer
Ernie F. Orsatti	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

The Dana Carvey vehicle Opportunity Knocks is an amiable but otherwise completely generic mistaken-identity farce. Feeling a special sense of déjà vu may be Robert Loggia, who plays the back-slapping CEO seduced by the fresh business ideas of an impostor (Carvey) -- in other words, the exact same role he played in Big. On the other hand, playing a slightly different role -- to good effect -- is Carvey himself. Too often pigeonholed as an impersonation comic, Carvey is not a good enough one to keep a movie afloat with impressions alone -- as was painfully evident in the 2002 stinker Master of Disguise. Here, he does do a couple funny voices -- the first President Bush and an Indian national among them. But much more often he's just a sympathetic everyman, and he's almost disarmingly likeable when free from his usual array of burdensome character affectations. As with most movies featuring a morally conflicted con artist falling in love with his mark, the script contains any number of moments when the ruse seems too thin to escape notice. But these are mostly tolerable, and the script's greatest sin is what it shares with the production on the whole -- being by the numbers in almost every respect. Sadly, this comedy may qualify as Carvey's best solo (i.e. non-Wayne's World) project, which says more about the SNL alum's lackluster film career than the strength of Opportunity Knocks.

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