Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Walter Hill. The film stars Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, and Hume Cronyn. The screenplay by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris was based on the 1902 novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon. It is the seventh film based on the story, and focusing on a Minor League Baseball pitcher who accepts a challenge to spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million from his great-uncle.
Plot
Montgomery Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend Spike Nolan, the Bulls' catcher, are arrested after a post-game bar fight. A man named J. B. Donaldo offers to post their bail if they plead guilty. Donaldo takes them to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter where Donaldo works, Brewster is told by executor Edward Roundfield that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire $300 million fortune with several stipulations:
More details
| author | George Barr McCutcheon Herschel Weingrod Timothy Harris |
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| contentLocation | New Jersey New York City |
| director | Walter Hill |
| editor | Freeman A. Davies Michael Ripps |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | arrest bar fight baseball pitcher best friend collect end force gamble game inverted jenny law firm mayor of new york city minor league baseball new york yankees none of the above nothing paralegal pitch plaza hotel retainer retainer agreement run write-in candidate |
| musicBy | Ry Cooder |
| producer | Gene Levy Joel Silver Lawrence Gordon |
| productionCompany | Silver Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles New York City |
| theme | sports comedy spy comedy |