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List Price: $20.00 | | Label: MCEG
Salesrank: 142944
Released: December 1, 1989 |
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| Used Price: $999.99 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color Director's Cut Special Edition NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
"Limit Up" is the story of a runner at the Chicago Board of Trade who tries to get ahead. She winds up making the Faustian bargain; her soul for a seat in the soybean pit. But all is not what it seems at the Board of Trade: she has to battle her own conscience in order to succeed.
Description of Limit Up:
He's had some good performances in supporting parts, but Richard Pryor never starred in a film that captured his comic brilliance the way his concert films did--proving that magic isn't something you can bottle. This 1985 film is no exception, even though it was directed by Walter Hill three years after he turned Eddie Murphy into a movie star with 48 HRS. The seventh film reworking of a warhorse stage play, this movie stars Pryor and John Candy as a pair of minor-league baseball players whose best days are behind them. Then Pryor is informed that he's just inherited a fortune--$300 million. But it comes with a condition: he must spend $30 million in one month, with a number of rules about how much he can spend at one time and how many of any one thing he can buy. Both Pryor and Candy were at the top of their comedy game at this point in time but were utterly failed both by ham-handed direction and by a script that left them higher and drier than seems humanly possible, given the comic talents involved. --Marshall Fine
Limit Up Reviews:
Brewster's Millions 
2009-11-23 - John Candy and Richard Pryor were two veterans of 80 comedy movies and each had hits and misses, the two would team up for this film.
Brewster is a minor league pitcher who learns he had a rich uncle he never knew about. He leaves his a challenge spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without making a profit, not spend a penny on himself, and be completely poor when the 30 days up. He'd win 300 million dollars if he can do that or he can wimp out and get a million dollars right now. He chooses the bigger prize. We see Brewster go around and try to spend the 30 million with an accountant, who he naturally falls in love with but she engaged to someone. I fell asleep during half this movie because it was boring and predictable. The ending should have been suspenseful but I knew what would happen. I didnt laugh at all, maybe because this film was rated PG. I still dont understand how anyone could have 30 million dollars, let alone 330 million (the sum of money he has to spend plus his winnings) but that I guess you gotta suspend disbelief because its a movie. I didnt really like this movie and the laughs were non-existent for me.
My DVD Movie: Brewster's Millions 
2009-09-12 - I loved this movie it is funny, if you like Richard Pryer then you will like this movie, it is Classic Richard Pryer at his best, a washed up old base ball player and his friend John Candy get frown in jail because they get in a drunkin brall, then they get fiard, but Richards Grandfather leves him 30,000,000.00 to spend in thirdy day and he can not tell any one] then the fun begains and John Candy is right by his side through the hole time, but the crucked lawers try to stop Richard a long the way as he trys to spend all that cash to get the real prize [[ASIN:B000063UR3 Brewster's Millions]
Funny movie! 
2009-06-24 - Very funny, quirky movie. Richard Pryor and John Candy at their best! Good movie to own and watch whenever in comical mood!
Movie
2009-02-11 - Received this product in a timely manner. Transaction went smoothly. Love the movie
Classic Premise for Comedy 
2009-01-05 - PLOT
An amateur league baseball pitcher will inherit 300 million dollars from a distant relative on the proviso that he first spend 30 million dollars in 30 days. Various other conditions are also made painfully clear.
REVIEW
A well-constructed cast including Richard Pryor and John Candy, and decent character actors of yesteryear such as Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach, Pat Hingle and Hume Cronyn, make the most of a great idea that is otherwise ill-served by a mediocre script and perfectly standard direction from the usually quite brilliant Walter Hill. Candy's chemistry with Pryor is first rate - why Pryor instead chose Gene Wilder as his long-term comedic partner will forever remain a baffling mystery.
While Brewster's Millions is not the funniest film of the 80s, certainly there are moments of hilarity here. Watch for a side-splitting cameo from Rick Moranis.
