Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

A con-man takes advantage of the situation of a psychiatric out-patient being mistaken for a missing millionaire.

Top credits

Directors

Maurice Phillips

Writers

Ziggy Steinberg

Cast

Richard Pryor — Eddie Dash
Gene Wilder — George, Abe Fielding
Mercedes Ruehl — Elaine
Stephen Lang — Dibbs

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Did you know

• Final leading role in a theatrical motion picture for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

• The film was originally set in New York City. The cast prepped for two months and shot for six weeks in New York City. On the last night of location filming, Peter Bogdanovich got a phone call from his agent around midnight, letting him know he was being replaced as director. After reviewing footage with the replacement director, the New York City footage was scrapped, and the script was re-written to be shot entirely in Los Angeles.

• On Gilbert Gottfried's podcast in 2016, Peter Bogdanovich said he and Gene Wilder didn't get along because Bogdanovich devoted most of his time and energy to Richard Pryor, who had Multiple Sclerosis. Bogdanovich claims the film was only green-lit because he got Pryor involved, and he believes Wilder successfully campaigned to have Bogdanovich replaced. Gottfried was cast in the Bogdanovich version, but dropped when it was reshot.