Odd Jobs

1986

Action / Comedy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 567 567

Plot summary

Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.

Director

Mark Story Photo
Mark Story

Top cast

Robert Townsend Photo
Robert Townsend as Dwight
Susan Krebs Photo
Susan Krebs as Gloria
Diana Bellamy Photo
Diana Bellamy as Woman in Restaurant
Paul Reiser Photo
Paul Reiser as Max
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815.16 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
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29.97 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.48 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bob dove

One of my favorite comedies

Hilarious movie features Reiser as a college student who decides to operate his own moving business,where he is joined by his friends,several of whom are played by well-known stand-up comics.Many quite funny scenes and characters,especially Jake Steinfeld and Rick Overton.Leo Burmester is hysterical as Wylie,the trucker.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 4 / 10

This gets a big ticket for major moving violations.

While there are some amusing moments in this comedy that tests the boundaries of political correctness, for the most part it's just plain unfunny. When it scores laughs, those laughs are loud, but at times, its efforts to ridicule certain elements of society fall flat, not out of offensiveness, but simply because the way they are presented just isn't funny. Certainly seeing Paul Reiser trying to fit in with black pal Robert Townsend's family by acting stereotypically black gets laughs, but it's because the parents don't say a word, giving the indication that either they are far too upper middle-class to understand or simply think that Reiser's a fool, but most likely both.Every cliche possible is there for the laughing or the eye rolling. Ridiculously dumb mobsters, idiotic southern rural types (straight out of "Deliverance"), horny divorced women, foul mouthed old people and pompous upperclass white people, instantly putting their houses up for sale when a black family moves in. It's hit or miss, and as the film goes on mostly the later. Reiser is a comic of select appeal, and his band of college buddies going up against the mob to start a moving company is a mixed bag. Townsend is the only one to show any real potential. Richard Dean Anderson isn't served well as the clichéd upperclass snob Reiser goes up against. This had potential, but sadly falls short of succeeding in getting laughs while taking on risky topics that could have been fun seeing skewered.
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