The Money Pit is a 1986 comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. It was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, Long Island, New York. The film is based on Eric Hodgins' 1946 novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film with the same title.
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“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)