Mixed Nuts
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
- Director:Nora Ephron
- Genre:Comedy / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:93 minutes
Cast
Steve Martin : Philip
Madeline Kahn : Mrs. Munchnik
Robert Klein : Mr. Lobel
Anthony LaPaglia: Felix
Juliette Lewis : Gracie
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At the “Lifesavers” suicide-prevention hotline, a lack of funding has resulted in an eviction notice from the landlord, who is apparently pressuring his tenants to leave the building so that he can convert it into a condominium residence. The hotline is staffed by Philip, the crabby Mrs. Munchnik and the mousy Catherine.
Despite the expectation “of everyone thinking of jumping off a bridge or slitting their wrists on Christmas Eve,” the staff has only received calls from a few women frightened by a serial killer (the Seaside Strangler), plus several obscene phone calls from the same man.
Mrs. Munchnik, intent on getting to her dead husband’s sister’s Christmas Eve dinner on time, becomes stuck in the elevator.
Meanwhile, Philip is trying to hide the landlord’s eviction notice from Catherine, while at the same time trying to figure out how to raise money to pay the rent and save the hotline. Philip’s emotions are further strained when he appeals to his fiancée Susan, a loan officer in a local bank, only to be told that not only may he not expect to receive a loan but also that she is dropping him in favor of a relationship with her psychiatrist.
Catherine’s friend Gracie is also experiencing strain, as she is very pregnant, supposedly with her slacker boyfriend Felix, who was released from prison seven months previous. The movie opens with Felix escaping Gracie’s wrath by running from her vintage clothing store, clad in a Santa Claus suit that she could have sold if it had been in available; in his flight he crashes into a Christmas tree being ported by two innocent Rollerbladers.
Philip has given out the office’s address (which is strictly against the organization’s usual policy) to a caller begging for some personal help. The caller is actually a transvestite named Chris who is tired of taking insults from his-or-her family. Read more
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