Opportunity Knocks

Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone’s…

• Director: Donald Petrie
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:101 minutes

Cast

Dana Carvey : Eddie Farrell / Jonathan Albertson
Robert Loggia : Milt Malkin
Todd Graff : Lou Pesquino
Julia Campbell : Dr. Annie Malkin
Milo O’Shea : Uncle Max

Con men Eddie Farrel (Carvey) and Lou Pesquino (Todd Graff) need cash fast and pretend to be repair men to fix a fake gas leak. The con doesn’t work, and after they escape, they find an empty house that they decide to burglarize. However, when they learn from a message on the answering machine that the owner is out of the country and the man who was going to house sit can’t make it, they spend the night instead. The next day, on the run from thugs sent by local gangster Sal Nichols (James Tolkan), to whom they owe money, they find themselves separated from each other and Eddie takes refuge in the empty house. In the morning, Eddie walks out of the shower and meets Mona Malkin (Doris Belack), whose son owns the house. She assumes Eddie is her son’s friend Jonathan Albertson, who is supposed to be house sitting. Eddie plays along, meeting Mona’s businessman husband Milt (Robert Loggia), who offers him a job at his company, and Eddie decides to run a “love con” on Milt’s daughter Annie (Julia Campbell) in order to gain access to Milt’s money. However, Lou is captured by Sal Nichols, and Eddie, Lou, and Eddie’s aunt and uncle (Milo O’Shea and Sally Gracie) must conspire to get Sal off their backs for good. Along the way, Eddie falls in love with Annie Malkin. Read more

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