nordaai Nora Ephron acts like she wrote the story, while it's a blatant copy of Le père Noël est une ordure (1982). Scene by scene, word by word, everything is the exact same. I was raised with the french movies and I see that 90 percent of all Hollywood comedy movies are copied from France the past 20 years. Hollywood is a scam.

Wes47 This amazing cast came together on Christmas Eve to make the worst movie of all time.The employees of a suicide hotline are in worse trouble than their callers. You're better off not calling Lifesavers. They give bad advice, tell you their problems, hang up on you, walk out and leave the phones unattended, and sometimes a complete stranger wanders in and answers the phone.They kill their landlord, but instead of getting into trouble, get rewarded because he turns out to be a serial killer. Lewis' character starts jumping up and down, and of course, that makes her water break. She literally has the baby 2 minutes later.And when the employees of Lifesavers get depressed, they cheer themselves up by having sex.

SnoopyStyle It's the Christmas season in LA. Philip (Steve Martin) runs a crisis hotline LifeSavers with Catherine (Rita Wilson) and Mrs Munchnik (Madeline Kahn). Stanley Tennenbaum (Garry Shandling) is evicting them for being 3 months behind on the rent. There is a serial killer on the loose called the Seaside Strangler. Felix (Anthony LaPaglia) is the loser father of pregnant Gracie (Juliette Lewis)'s unborn baby. Susan (Joely Fisher) breaks up with Philip. Chris (Liev Schreiber) is a transvestite. Louie (Adam Sandler) lives in the building. Mr. Lobel (Robert Klein) hates Munchnik. Dr. Kinsky (Rob Reiner) is an animal vet. Parker Posey and Jon Stewart are a couple of rollerbladers who keeps trying to bring a Christmas tree home. Who knew either were rollerbladers.I don't understand what the Ephron sisters think is funny in this movie. It's a chaotic mess. It's a great cast of terrific comedic actors doing slightly weird and quirky things without actually being funny. There are some sad attempts at slapsticks. Everybody in the movie is trying so hard to be quirky that they stumble over each other. The central premise of the suicide hotline is like a dare from a comedian to laugh. This movie mostly left me scratching my head at all the slightly annoying people.

ALB This is possibly Steve Martin's worst film. From the bad dye job (WHY?) to the bad acting to the bad writing to the poor direction to the crappy sets to the cheap costumes to the unfunny gags to the unsuccessful attempts at physical comedy to the sheer waste of great talent to the incredible, unbelievable, mind-blowing amount of sheer BOREDOM contained within, Mixed Nuts has it all. The jokes fall flat, the music is embarrassing and cartoonish, the characters are uninteresting...ugh, I'm bored even writing this review.I am stunned by how bad this was. It's nearly impossible to believe that the brains behind When Harry Met Sally directed this total failure of a movie. That was 90 minutes I will never get back.