Taking Care of Business

“You are who you pretend to be.”

6.3(178)19901h 48m

Comedy

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Director

Arthur Hiller

Budget

$14.0M

Revenue

$20.0M

Where to watch

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Cast

Jim Belushi

Jimmy Dworski

Charles Grodin

Spencer Barnes

Anne DeSalvo

Debbie Lipton

Loryn Locklin

Jewel Bentley

Stephen Elliott

Walter Bentley

Héctor Elizondo

Warden Toolman

Veronica Hamel

Elizabeth Barnes

Mako

Mr. Sakamoto

Gates McFadden

Diane Connors

John de Lancie

Ted Bradford Jr.

Thom Sharp

Mike Steward

Ken Foree

J.B., Prisoner making demands

Reviews

2 reviews

Svumpukkel85

7y ago

6/10 Nice filofax... ......said no one ever in 2018! A nostalgic trip to a wierd past. I liked it for a 90's movie, and it is cute, but not very funny. But a feel-gooder and everyone is nice and happy, but somehow brain-dead - like it is supposed to be! But I was surprised how sexist and racist it was in comedy movies from the 90's! Not something I had ever questioned before. Like this fu...

Seragon

2y ago

Originally released as Filofax it took me a while to find this movie with it's rerelease name of Taking Care of Business. Well worth the search though. One of James (Jim) Belushi's best films along with The Principal. I remember watching the TimeCode VHS (I worked in a video rental shop) about 2 months before it was released on VHS. Still a brilliant movie & even my 14 year old son enjoyed it s...