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Revisiting - Brewster's Millions

Last Seen - last seen sometime in the early 00's, but watched it a fair few times in the 90's.

Opinion Back Then - it's a film I really enjoyed, I guess it's wish fulfilment but I like films when a regular schmo becomes a millionaire for whatever reason and I like the plot. Of course the pairing of Richard Pryor and John Candy was going to be a good thing too. Also I bet Stephen Collins is a friendly, trusting person in real life.

Opinion Now in 2017 - I never thought it was a perfect film and don't think my opinion as changed. Brewster as to spend $30 million in 30 days per his late Uncle's request then he'll inherit $300 million, but he can't tell anybody (and can only gamble or give to charity a certain percent, plus he has to pay people a true wage). The nagging feeling with the movie is that he doesn't seem truly happy with the money so what would he be like with the huge amount. Having watched it again I did like Pryor's chemistry with John Candy has his best mate Spike - this was the only film they made together and think they could have easily done more. This was like the 7th adaption of the story and there's hasn't been one in the 30 years + since.

So after all these years it's still an enjoyable movie that I won't pretend hasn't got faults but they are easy to overlook them, and I'd still have no problem watching this again.
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