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Brewster's Millions

Cast

Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins View All

Crew

Walter Hill (Director), Herschel Weingrod (Screenplay), Timothy Harris (Screenplay) View All

Release: May 22nd, 1985

Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

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...I read a synopsis about the movie around a year ago but can't find hide or hare about it now. It's documentary/interview style. A mysterious event has killed a large portion of the human population...

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Citizen Rules
John Candy had a smaller role and he was fine here, but this is no John Candy film, the movie belongs to the talented Richard Pryor.

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Gideon58
Pryor plays Montgomery Brewster, a minor league baseball player who learns that he has a great uncle (who's white) whose bigotry about being related to a black man motivates him to impose what he thinks is an impossible caveat to an inheritance to his only living relative: The rich uncle informs Br....