a fine mess

Director: blake edwards

Actor: ted danson,howie mandel,richard mulligan,stuart margolin

Data Published: Fri Aug 08 1986

Genres: Action,Comedy,Crime,Romance

Key Words: horse,actor,piano,auction,horse race

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091051/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fine_Mess_(film)

Description: A Fine Mess is a movie starring Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, and Richard Mulligan. An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the...

Plot: While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Binky and Turnip while they dope a race horse with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money. Spence and Dennis end up having to outrun not only the thugs, who manage to put a few bullet holes in Spence's car, but also the police after they find Spence's bullet-riddled car and after the race horse, Sorry Sue, dies from the drugs. The plot also includes an antique player piano of which Dennis comes into possession, sympathetic but naive auction house employee Ellen Frankenthaler who is attracted to Dennis, and exotically beautiful Claudia Pazzo, the wife of local Italian mob boss Tony Pazzo, who is interested in buying the piano and whom Spence can't resist.