Product Details

• Actors: Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, Isaac Hayes, Lloyd Bochner, Yvonne De Carlo
• Directors: John Trent
• Writers: John Trent, Claude Harz, David Main
• Producers: David Perlmutter, Peter James
• Format: Color, EP, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Direct Source Specia
• VHS Release Date: June 9, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305505128
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #689,781 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Starring: John Candy, Anthony Newley, Stephanie Powers, Isaac Hayes

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars John Candy?... You mean Stephanie Powers!, December 30, 2007

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Pooter "Sparky" - See all my reviews

This review is from: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (DVD)

I just got through watching this movie. It started out slow, so I thought it was going to be a made-for-boring movie but it picked up, was fun to watch and wound up being a good movie.
John Candy's picture appears on the cover of the DVD case but he is not the main character or STAR of the movie. I'm sure he was put on the cover because he has greater Star Recognition than all the others. His character, who comes in halfway through the movie, is just supporting. It IS a pleasant movie to watch.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fraud, June 20, 2005

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Douglas (Bastrop, LA, United States) - See all my reviews
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DO NOT BUY THIS. The cover of the package is fraudulent. John Candy is NOT a major character in this movie. This movie is some cheap independent made movie full of cheap bathroom humor (if you can call it humor). We turned this movie off 10-15 minutes into it and Candy had NOT made an appearance yet. His name appeared in the end of the cast credits.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars too bad you can't give a zero, September 11, 2009

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Patricia R. Andersen "redheaded booklover" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (DVD)

I don't know who wrote the blurb for this movies - John Candy does not "head up the cast" of this movie unless you consider under a minute of screen time "heading up" the cast. It's not about a jealous husband trying to get his wife back. It's about a gold-digging wife (Stephanie Powers) who sleeps with her exhusband (Anthony Newley) on a regular basis while draining her present husband dry. And setting up a deal to curry political favor by sleeping with the man running for mayor of wherever this city is supposed to be. They can't even get the name right - Anthony Newley's character is "Sweeney" not "Skeet". The photo of John Candy on the box is from a later time, also. It's a young John Candy in the film and he has about 1 minute of screen time.
The drawing power for me was Isaac Hayes and John Candy. Isaac Hayes plays Anthony Newley's buddy/sidekick and he is in the movie for much too short a time. a young John Candy plays a cop in a "blink and you'll miss him" role. So if you thought that pairing would be cool to see, you're probably right, it would be. It didn't happen in this movie.
If you like a long pointless movie about characters you don't care about doing stuff that doesn't make any sense to anyone, this is the movie for you. Especially if you're not a John Candy fan, you probably won't notice he's in the movie. If you want to see something funny with Isaac Hayes or John Candy, keep looking. Almost anything is better than this drivel.