Dirty Laundry

1987
PG-13
1h 19m

IMDb RATING

4.1/10

180

YOUR RATING

Carl Lewis, Leigh McCloskey, Robbie Rist, Sean Coulter, and Jeanne O'Brien in Dirty Laundry (1987)

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A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve ... Read allA young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.

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IMDb RATING

4.1/10

180

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The Drummer in the band featured in the movie is Matt sorum the drummer of The Cult, Guns and Roses and Velvet Revolver. The bass player Terry Nails, was a founding member of the band Tommy Tutone, played bass with Steve Jones and played bass for Ozzy Osbourne on the No More Tears album. The singer and the guitarist, Johnny Frank and Danny Stag are from the band Kingdom Come.

Quotes
Trish: Trouble seems to be following you around. You must have been born under an unlucky star.
Jay: No, but I was conceived in a drive-in during a Bruce Lee film. Does that count?

Soundtracks
Cruisin' With The Top Down
(Instrumental)
Composed by Sam Winans and Jim Bond
Recorded at Tempo Studios, Santa Monica, CA

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Oddly cast screwball comedy has plenty of laughs but runs out of gas

My review was written in July 1987 after watching the film on Sony video cassette.

Spurred on by a goofball cast, "Dirty Laundry" is a crazy comedy that provides lots of fun before sputtering to a sentimental, unsatisfying conclusion. Picture is headed for a home video release in fall via Sony.

Leigh McCloskey toplines as a rock concert sound man working for corrupt manager Sonny Bono. Bono's involved in a drug deal that goes awry in a drop at a laundry, with McCloskey accidentally walking off with a laundry bag filled with money. Hero is soon on the run, accompanied by dizzy journalist Jeanne O'Brien, with Bono's gangster boss Frankie Valli ordering his henchmen to get them and the money, or else!

Among the numerou casting oddities of this feature are, in additon to Valli and Bono at odds with their singer images, Olympic stars Greg Louganis and Carl Lewis who show up respectively as McCloskey's party animal roommate and a spoof of Phillip Michael Thomas' "Miami Vice" character Tubbs. Edy Williams also is on board shaking her moneymakers and wrestler Deanna Booher is typecast as a dominatrix. Stars McCloskey and O'Brien make a pleasant, romantic sparring team and Robbie Rist is fun aas their nerdish helper.