Friday, 27 August 2010

Taking Care Of Business

Horrible 1990 'comedy' about an uptight, worky bloke who loses his Filofax and a baseball loving, car thefty bloke who breaks out of prison and finds it and assumes worky's identity. Everything that happens from then on is just bloody annoying. I can't be bothered to explain why and you'll never watch it anyway so that's fine.

Has there ever been a James Belushi film where he doesn't just play James Belushi though? The Filofax itself ends up as the star of the show here. Organisational obsessives will love the close-ups of the lists and indexes and the way everyone whips their organiser out with a flourish in meetings and restaurants. It also gets a 'hero' moment when worky and thefty hang on to it to make a zip wire escape. God damn those things are well made. Which is more than can be said for the film itself.

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