The Money Pit

The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin, and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. It was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, New York and is a remake of the 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. It was coexecutive produced by Steven Spielberg.

Attorney Walter Fielding Tom Hanks and his classical musician girlfriend, Anna Crowley Shelley Long, learn of Walter Sr.s wedding to a beautiful young woman named Florinda Tetchie Agbayani in Rio de Janeiro shortly after fleeing the country for embezzling millions of dollars from their musician clients. The next morning, they are told they need to vacate the apartment they are subletting from Annas exhusband, Max Beissart Alexander Godunov, a selfabsorbed conductor who has returned early from Europe.Through an unscrupulous realtor friend, Walter learns about a million dollar distress sale mansion on the market for a mere 200,000. He and Anna meet the owner, Estelle Maureen Stapleton, who claims she must sell it quickly because her husband, Carlos John van Dreelen, has been arrested by the Israelis, having been accused of being Adolf Hitlers pool man. Her sob story and insistence at keeping the place in candlelight in order to save money for the goddamn, bloodsucking lawyers, distracts Walter and enchants Anna, who finds it romantic. They decide to buy it, but Anna insists on putting up half of the money needed for the repairs. She turns to Max for her half by selling him back what she got in their divorce. Walter gets his half from his wealthiest client. ........

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