Main Cast: James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner
Release Year: 1990
Country: US
Run Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Businessman Larry Burrows (James Belushi) has a wife who ignores him, a screwball friend who won't leave him alone, and a car that continually breaks down. All that and more is enough to give him a mid-life crisis. After his car stalls once more, he enters a bar looking for help and encounters a bartender (Michael Caine) who shows him what his life would have been like, if he hadn't struck out in a baseball game back in high school. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Bill McCutcheon - Leo Hansen; Rene Russo - Cindy Jo; Raymond L. Anderson - Umpire; Doug Barron - Lewis Flick; Sky Berdahl - Young Clip; Collin Bernsen - Tom Robertson; Bryan Buffington - Boy; Sari Caine - Girl; Maury Chaykin - Guzelman; Pat Corley - Harry Burrows; Courteney Cox Arquette - Jewel Jagger; Richie Devaney - Young Larry; Jesse J. Donnelly - The Cop; James Douglas - Mr. Ripley; Whit Edwards - Young Jerry; Adam Eichhorst - Teenager; Bruce Evers - Team Coach; John Garver - Waiter; Michael Genevie - Guest #1; William Griffis - Maitre D'; Eddita Hill - Juanita; Kathy Ireland - Gina; Howard Kingkade - Guest; Tony Longo - Huge Guy; Terry Loughlin - Wine Steward; Heather Lynch - Young Ellen; Jeffrey Pillars - Truck Driver; Osamu Sakabe - Nakamura; Jay O. Sanders - Jackie Earle; Douglas Seale - Boswell; Chris Stacy - Teammate; Andrew Stahl - Jerry Haskins; Martin Thompson - Guest Stilton; Jeff Weiss - Ludwig
Credit
Catherine Hardwicke - Art Director, Available Light Ltd. - Animator, Katherine Kean - Animator, John T. van Vlient - Animator, James Cruikshank - Co-producer, Susan B. Landau - Co-producer, James Orr - Co-producer, Jane Greenwood - Costume Designer, James Orr - Director, Norman D. Hollyn - Editor, Michael R. Miller - Editor, Laurence Mark - Executive Producer, David Newman - Composer (Music Score), Muff Winwood - Songwriter, Steve Winwood - Songwriter, Charles Balazs - Makeup, Michael Seymour - Production Designer, Alex Thomson - Cinematographer, Kathleen McKernin - Set Designer, Naomi Shohan - Set Designer, Apogee Productions - Special Effects, Ray Bivins - Special Effects, Peter Donen - Special Effects, Richard Huggins - Special Effects, Monty Cox - Stunts, Pete Antico - Stunts, James Cruikshank - Screenwriter, James Orr - Screenwriter, James Brown - Musical Performer
The story begins on "the strangest day" of Larry Burrow's (James Belushi) life consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures. Larry, who blames all of his life's problems on the fact that he struck out during a key moment of a high school baseball game, wishes he had done things differently. His wish is granted by a guardian angel-like figure named Mike (Michael Caine), and appears at various times as a bartender, a cab driver, and so on. Larry soon discovers that Mike has transferred Larry into an alternate reality in which he had won the pivotal high school game. He now finds himself rich and (within his company) powerful, and married to the boss's (Bill McCutcheon) sexy daughter Cindy Jo Bumpers (Rene Russo). At first, his new life seems perfect, but he soon begins to miss his best friend Clip Metzler (Jon Lovitz) and wife Ellen (Linda Hamilton) from his previous life; he also discovers that his alternate self has created many enemies, like Jewel Jagger (Courteney Cox), and as Larry's problems multiply, he finds himself wishing to be put back into his old life.
