Opportunity Knocks (film)
- Dana Carvey: Eddie Farrell
- Robert Loggia: Milt Malkin
- Todd Graff: Lou Pesquino
- Julia Campbell: Dr. Annie Malkin
- Milo O'Shea: Uncle Max
- James Tolkan: Sal Nickles
- Doris Belack: Mona Malkin
- Sally Gracie: Aunt Connie
- Mike Bacarella: Pinkie Morino
The misfortune Knight (Original Title: Opportunity Knocks ) is an American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie from 1990 Filmed in Los Angeles and Chicago Film played in U.S. theaters about 11.4 million dollars. .
Action
The scammers Eddie Farrell and Lou Pesquino break into a house where they hide from the gang leader Sal Nickles. You hear on the answering machine that the landlord is out of town for a long time. Farrell are then made himself as this man. He meets his sister Annie Malkin, a doctor know. She thinks he's the best friend of her brother. Eddie falls for her.
Annie and Eddie are a couple. Farrell gets a job as a marketing head of the company, which is part of Annie's father.
Malkin finds out who is really Farrell, after which it puts an end to him. Farrell's friend Pesquino is kidnapped by Nickles. Farrell pays the debt in Nickles with money from the safe in the office of Annie's father. After Pesquino is released, he put, Farrell and two other friends Nickles a trap. The gangster impresses a supposed city officials to get the job of blowing up a building for its demolition company. As the building should not be demolished, he was arrested after the successful weekend blast.
Eddie visits Annie at the hospital where she works and asks her for forgiveness. She forgives him after his friends fake an accident in front of the hospital entrance in front of Annie's eyes.
Reviews
Hal Hinson in The Washington Post noted that Dana Carvey was indeed slightly amusing, but not suitable for the lead role. His talent was for " too lean". The well-known American film critic Roger Ebert criticized in the Chicago Sun - Times, the film borrow from comedies such as The Secret of My Success and Trading Places and owed his best moments of chemistry between Carvey and loggia. The strand of the plot with the two characters was not developed enough.