The odd-couple pairing of C. Thomas Howell and Wallace Shawn is the brightest element of NICKEL & DIME, an otherwise mediocre comic action tale.
The story begins when flashy, free-spirited conman/lawyer Jack Stone (Howell), an "heir chaser," or specialist in probate cases, teams with straight-arrow accountant Everett Willis (Shawn), a forty-one-year-old man determinedly stuck in the fifties, whose idols are Hopalong Cassidy and Peggy Lee
("There's been no good music since 1955," he opines, mourning the advent of Elvis) to find the missing heir to the estate of a slain multimillionaire businessman.
Desperately broke, Stone has returned home to take over the i...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG
Length:
96 mins