Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.
Big Trouble has generally received mixed reviews.
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Review of Big Trouble (1986)
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Aug 1989
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 06 Oct 1988
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
By Vincent Canby (762) for The New York Times (9,847) on 03 Jan 2012
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
Review of Big Trouble (1986)
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Big Trouble was released in 1986 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 33 reviews, giving Big Trouble (1986) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 58%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Big Trouble than critics were.
With a score of 58%, Big Trouble is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1986, which stands at 58%.
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