Reception
The film received mainly positive reviews from critics and is the 6th highest grossing film of 1986 (records state that in addition to the rental and theatrical gross it received, it went on to gross $108,634,920 globally). On Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, it shows that 88% of 24 critics' reviews were positive. Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times consensus read: "This is exactly the sort of plot Marx or Fields could have appeared in. Dangerfield brings it something they might also have brought along: a certain pathos."
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