NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1991)

 

Directed By: Dan Aykroyd  Written By: Dan Aykroyd & Peter Aykroyd  Cinematography: Dean Cundey  Editor: Malcolm Campbell & James R. Symons 

Cast: Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Taylor Negron, Raymond J. Barry, Brian Doyle Murray, Daniel Baldwin, Valri Bromfield, digital underground 

A financier agrees to take the lawyer to her business meeting. On the way, they run a stop sign in a small town in the middle of nowhere and are arrested. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.

DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)

Directed By: Robert Zemeckis 
Written By: David Koepp & Martin Donovan 
Cinematography By: Dean Cundey 
Editor: Arthur Schmidt


Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Michelle Johnson, Alaina Reed Hall, Adam Storke, Fabio, Debra Jo Rupp, Jonathan Silverman, Ian Ogilvy, Mary Ellen Trainor  

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

BIG BUSINESS (1988)

Directed By: Jim Abrahams 
Written By: Dori Pierson & Marc Rubel 
Cinematography By: Dean Cundey 
Editor: Harry Keramidas 


Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Barry Primus, Michael Gross, Mary Gross, Seth Green, Deborah Rush, Joe Grifasi, John Vickery, J.C. Quinn, Patricia Gaul 


In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to close down the Jupiter Hollow factory.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0011: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)

Directed By: John Carpenter
Written By: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein & W.D. Richtor
Cinematography By: Dean Cundey
Editor: Steve Mirkovich, Mark Weiner & Edward A. Warschilka

Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Dennis Dun, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li