Taking Care of Business (film)
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Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan
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| Directed by | Arthur Hiller |
| Produced by | Geoffrey Taylor |
| Written by | Jill Mazursky J.J. Abrams |
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| Music by | Stewart Copeland |
| Cinematography | David M. Walsh |
| Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $20,005,435 |
Taking Care of Business is an 1990 American comedy film, starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin. It was directed by Arthur Hiller.
The film was released in the United Kingdom under the title Filofax. The movie's name matches the title song, Takin' Care of Business, by Randy Bachman, recorded by the Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO).
A convicted car thief and diehard Chicago Cubs fan, Jimmy Dworski (Belushi) wins tickets to the World Series. Unfortunately, he still has a couple of days left to serve in prison and the warden (Héctor Elizondo) won't let him leave and come back. With the help of other inmates, Jimmy stages a riot so he can sneak out of prison to see the game. On the way, he finds the filofax of uptight and spineless yuppie advertising executive Spencer Barnes (Grodin), which promises a reward if it is found.
Over the next day, Jimmy takes on Barnes' identity —- staying in the Malibu beach house of Spencer's boss, flirting with the boss's daughter, even taking a meeting with a powerful Japanese food company magnate named Sakamoto (Mako Iwamatsu). The fake "Spencer"'s unorthodox methods, such as beating the magnate at tennis and telling him about the poor quality of his food products, gets the attention of the taken aback Sakamoto. However his unconventional negotiations with the food company insults some of the executives, seemingly ruining Spencer's reputation. Meanwhile, lacking his precious filofax, the real Spencer Barnes is spiraling into the gutter. Losing all his clothes, his car and money, he has to rely on an old college acquaintance, the neurotic and overbearing Debbie Lipton (Anne De Salvo) who keeps trying to rekindle a relationship with him.
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