Does anyone know the name to these three (3) films?

The first I saw back on Holy Thursday 1996 on TV. It had something to do with these two detectives and this red haired lady going to be married. The lady had the guys tied ontop of a skylight and claimed that the church's oragn was tied into a device there, that when it played a certain note, the window would shatter and guys would fall to their death.

The wedding comes and they play "Here comes the bride". Meanwhile, the detctives are trying to untie themselves (one of them asks how to do something and says by playing hopscotch or something). After the song finishes, the lady orders the piano player to play (the one that they play after the bride has been kissed) and he does. When it ends the window shatters but the dectetives are ready and start creaming everyone. One red haired dude gets his face creamed with the wedding cake.

I was wondering what flick this was.

The other two, involve $money$ themes.

The first film I saw back in the early 90s on TV one night. This lady was in a casino and went up to a one armed bandit, inserted a quarter, gave the thing a pull and won alot of money. Money actually started raining down. She was so excited. The next morning she and (her husband I think) were in bed and the husband noticed and odd feeling in the bed. The lady had put some of the money she won there. She claimed the other (I forgot the amount she said) was down in the basement. The husband said she couldn't keep it, (for some reason (all I can think is that some of it would have to go to the state (but if so, that would be done automatically b4 collecting it) or probably because of some church tradition like gambiling was illegal). Anyway, the wife is starting to freak out that she has to give it back.

The second was released in theaters sometime during the 1993-1994 winter. It was rated R. The film looked cheery, exciting, happy. I think it was about this guy getting alot of money, but I can't remember for sure. All I remember is the previews seemed cheery except for this one scene where they showed a mob with wooden stick torches.

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Sounds like that flick was a piece of *****. Beyond that, I can't help.


The only film released theatrically in the U.S. during the late-'93/early-'94 timeline that fits at all is Money for Nothing (1993) starring John Cusack. The movie is based on a true story of an unemployed Philadelphia man who found a bag of money totaling almost one million bucks that accidentally fell off the back of an armored car. Once he has it there is much hassle in contacting the local mobbed-up people in his neighborhood to try and launder it for him. It's an OK movie with an amazing supporting cast including Benicio Del Toro, James Ganolfini and Michael Madsen (Madsen had been in Reservoir Dogs the year before, but otherwise everybody else beside Cusack was pretty unknown at the time), but ultimately pretty disappointing. It has a decent set-up, but the final act is pretty sloppy and unsatisfying. Plus there's problem with a shifting tone, gowing from a kind of straight ahead comedy with dark edges into territory that is much too brutal. A little above average overall, but pretty forgettable.



However the "one scene where they showed a mob with wooden stick torches" makes no sense. Not only in the context of Money for Nothing, but for any contemporary film. Why would a mob of people be carrying torches (and by the way, I hate when mobs carry metal pole torches as opposed to the wooden stick variety!)? Is this a period piece? Looks to me like your mind has conflated two or more previews into one memory there.

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Thanks. That does seem very familiar at looking imdb.com. "What would you do if you foun $1.2 million" sounds very familiar with what the narrator of the preview said.

It was just that this film was the very first rated R film, that looked interesting to me.



The wedding one was a rather cheesy flick, anyway.

Hmm, it could be that I was thinking of a different film with the torches. Perhaps they deleted that scene (my friend says that he thinks the "torch" scene was supposed to be for this movie, but yet when he went to see it in the theaters they didn't show that scene).

I just remember seeing a preview of a film involving a ton of money, seemed happy/cheery, plus that mob & one torch scene. Maybe it must have been another year.


Btw, the ending to "Money for Nothing" was rather weak. I would have probably preferred the mobster scene.