


Screenplay by
Ken Friedman
Music Composed by
J. Peter
Robinson
World Premiere
May 14, 1990 (Ziegfeld
Theatre, New York City, NY)
Theatrical Release Date
May 18, 1990
DVD Release Date
April 16, 2002
Production Companies
Orion
Pictures Corporation
Distribution Company
Orion
Pictures Corporation

Whether he's pitching himself, or his high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales, Joey O'Brien never lets a day go by without "doing" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control for way too long... and now he's riding on the hot seat! An impatient Mafioso wants his hide. He's rendezvousing with an obnoxious married woman. His space cadet girlfriend needs more money. His ex-wife wants her alimony and his delinquent daughter is nowhere to be found! To top it all off, Turgeon Auto is relocating and inventory is priced to go--and unfortunately, so is Joey unless his sales pick up. He has just one last big day to do or die... and just when he thought it could get no worse, it does! With the showroom abuzz on D-Day, in walks Larry, a lunkhead terminator with an inferiority complex and an axe to grind. Larry's not exactly looking for a new set of whitewalls. He's loaded down with explosives and looking for the man who's been "doing" his wife! Now in a life-or-death situation, Joey O'Brien is forced to do what he does best... lie!


Larry
Stay back! Tell them to stay back or I'll blow this
place and half the fuckin' block to hell.
Joey
He says stay back or he's gonna blow this place and
half the block to hell.
Detective Walters
Yeah? With what?
Larry
The stuff on my bike there. It's very explosive
stuff.
Jack
He's got stuff strapped to his bike!
Detective Walters
So what? So's my little kid. Look, we wanna know what
it is.
Larry
M2 plastic.
Joey
Plastic?
Larry
M2 plastic.
Jack
Plastique? Oh, shit.
Larry
Yeah.
Joey
M2 plastique!
Detective Walters
M2 plastique? You tell him we don't believe him.
Where the hell did he get that?
Larry
Jersey.
Joey
Jersey!
Detective Walters
OK! OK! What does he want?


Robin Williams
Joey
O'Brien
Tim Robbins
Larry
Pamela Reed
Tina
Fran Drescher
Joy Munchack
Annabella Sciorra
Donna
Lori Petty
Lila

A high pressure sales pitch.
A high pressure love life.
For Joey O'Brien, life is no bed of Rollses.
Legend. Lover. Salesman. A way with words. A way with women. And way over his head.
A comedy about the near death of a salesman.
If you can't trust a car salesman... who can you trust?

Dates
May 16, 1989 -
July 1989
Locations
Long Island,
NY
Queens, NY
New York City, NY

Australia
May 31, 1990
Sweden
July 27, 1990
France
August 8, 1990
West Germany
September 20,
1990
UK
October 5, 1990
Finland
October 19, 1990
Netherlands
November 23,
1990
Turkey
January 1991
Spain
March 22, 1991
Japan
May 25, 1991

Italy
Cadillac man, Mister
occasionissima
Hebrew
Ish Ha-Cadillac
Poland
Sprzedawca
cadillaców
Brazil
Um Conquistador em
Apuros
Portugal
Um Sedutor em
Apuros

This title is available on:
DVD
Video
Poster

Gross
$27,627,310 (USA)
N/A (international)
$27,627,310 (total)
Opening Weekend
$6,712,079 (1,826 theaters)
Widest Release
1,878
theaters