Product Details

• Actors: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter
• Directors: Ken Shapiro
• Writers: Arthur Sellers, Ken Shapiro, Tom Sherohman
• Producers: Alan Greisman, Douglas Kenney, Michael Shamberg
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: May 19, 1993
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300247406
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,715 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Modern Problems. Twentieth Century Fox. By Chevy Chase and Dabney Coleman.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've been waiting for this.....!, October 1, 2005

By 

Supertenor (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Problems (DVD)

What's up with some of these poor reviews? You people suck. Dabney Coleman's peformance, alone, puts Modern Problems over the top.

Can you really deny lines like..?:

"You see...what you need to realize is..she's a manipulatin' b!tch.."

[or]

"Don't look at me like I'm a freak..! I'm not a freak! He's the freak! I'm a g*ddamned goodlookin' man!"

...exploding ballet pants, extreme nosebleeds..and Nell Carter! What's not to love?

Now, if they'll just release a soundtrack featuring that killer TUBES song, I'll be happy. :)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good to watch every now and then, October 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern Problems [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The biggest problem is, the sound, and no closed captioning, so alot of gags are missed. After that it's a very funny movie, in a Big Trouble In Little China kind of way. The movie is far out, except it, sit back & laugh. Don't look for OSCAR material here.
Chevy's girlfriend leaves him, he gets doused in nuclear waste,
and wreaks havoc with hilarious results.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love me or hate me - a rare '80's classic - I love it!, May 13, 2006

By 

Mathias Nagy "Voracious" (Townsville, Qld, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern Problems (DVD)

This is an awesomely funny movie, with a twist. It is one of the few rare movies I consider a personal favourite. Warning, though, it is clever adult entertainment, and some of you will simply not get it. It is spew-your-popcorn-over-the-chump-in-front-of-you funny, but also subtly deep, real, dark and very, very clever. I tip my hat to Mr. Sinister's concise summary, "A little slice of Regan-era fatalism". If you crave funny, clever and repeatable viewing that genuinely thoughful, this is a rare gem. A comedy onion!