Director Nora Ephron, who scored a surprise smash with 1993's SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, misses resoundingly with this frenzied Christmas farce, starring a semi-hysterical Steve Martin and a high-profile ensemble that fails to rise to the occasion. Based on LE PERE NOEL EST UNE ORDURE, a 1982
French comedy virtually unknown in the US, MIXED NUTS is scripted by sisters Nora and Delia as a hellzapoppin laff riot, with Martin expected to ride in and clean up the carnage.
Philip (Martin) is the administrator of the Lifesavers crisis hotline, a beleaguered non-profit community group in Venice Beach, which is facing foreclosure at the hands of a venal landlord (Garry Sha...
Released:
1994
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins