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Brewster's millions

Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's back to zero again.

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Corporate Author: Universal Pictures (Firm)
Other Authors: Hill, Walter, 1942- (Director), Gordon, Lawrence, 1936- (Producer), Silver, Joel (Producer), Weingrod, Herschel (Screenwriter), Harris, Timothy, 1946- (Screenwriter), Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005 (Actor), Candy, John (Actor), McKee, Lonette (Actor), Collins, Stephen, 1947 October 1- (Actor), Orbach, Jerry (Actor), Cronyn, Hume (Actor), McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Published: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2002]
Subjects:
Baseball players > Drama.
Inheritance and succession > Drama.
Money > Drama.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
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Summary:Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's back to zero again.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon.
Special features: theatrical trailer, cast & filmmakers, production notes.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; 2.0 mono; 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Ric Waite ; editors, Freeman Davies, Michael Ripps ; music, Ry Cooder.
ISBN:0783267894
9780783267890
Author Notes:Hume Cronyn was born in London, Ontario, Canada on July 18, 1911. He attended Ridley College, McGill University, Montreal for pre-law and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York and the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria for acting. He had simultaneous careers on stage and screen and had a significant Broadway presence, in the form of actor, director, producer and writer since the 1930s. He married actress Jessica Tandy in 1942, and the two went on to perform in numerous plays and movies together.

His first appeared on Broadway in Three Men on a Horse in 1934. His other Broadway credits include Room Service, Boy Meets Girl, The Fourposter, A Delicate Balance, and The Gin Game. He won a Tony Award in 1964 for his performance as Polonius in Hamlet. In 1994, Cronyn and Tandy won the first Tony Award for lifetime theatrical achievement.

His screen debut was in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. His other screen credits include Lifeboat, Brute Force, The Green Years, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included, To Dance with the White Dog, and Camilla. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Rope in 1948 and Under Capricorn in 1949. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to drama in 1988.

He wrote an autobiography in 1991 entitled A Terrible Liar: A Memoir. He died of prostate cancer on June 15, 2003.

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