Themes: Dangerous Attraction, Playing the Field, Cons and Scams
Main Cast: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Danny Aiello
Release Year: 1995
Country: ES/US
Run Time: 115 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain. Director Fernando Treuba, who won an Oscar for Belle Epoque, made his English-language debut with Two Much, an updated screwball comedy. Banderas plays a con artist appropriately named Art Dodge. Joan Cusack plays his assistant, Gloria. They specialize in convincing recently widowed women that their husbands ordered an expensive painting before their death. One day, Art tries to work his scam at the funeral of mobster Gene Paletto's (Danny Aiello) father. Gene is outraged by Art, even more so after he steals away his ex-wife, Betty Kerner (Melanie Griffith). Betty quickly falls for the handsome Art and plans to marry him, but he is soon distracted by her beautiful sister, Liz (Daryl Hannah). In order to woo both women, Art disguises himself as fictional brother Bart by removing his ponytail and putting on glasses. Art/Bart switches identities and hops from bed to bed while being pursued by Gene and other mobsters. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Eli Wallach - Sheldon; Theodora Castellanos - Conchita; Gabino Diego - Mane; Joe Hess - Goon; Phil Leeds - Lincoln Brigade; Austin Pendleton - Dr. Huffeyer; Sid Raymond - Lincoln Brigade; Jeff Moldovan - Goon; Allan Rich - Reverend Larrabee; Vincent Schiavelli - Sommelier; Louis Seeger Crume - Lincoln Brigade; Ellen Jacoby - Waitress; Santiago Segura - Paparazzi
Credit
Paul Diamond - Associate Producer, Fernando de Garcillan - Associate Producer, Volkert Struycken - Associate Producer, Johanna Ray - Casting, Elaine J. Huzzar - Casting, Lala Huete - Costume Designer, Javier Chinchilla - First Assistant Director, Fernando Trueba - Director, Nena Bernard - Editor, Robert W. Cort - Executive Producer, Ted Field - Executive Producer, Adam Leipzig - Executive Producer, Michel Camilo - Composer (Music Score), Michel Camilo - Songwriter, Naomi Donne - Makeup, Juan Botella - Production Designer, Jose Luis Alcaine - Cinematographer, Andrés Vicente Gómez - Producer, Cristina Huete - Producer, Barbara Peterson - Set Designer, Richard Jones - Special Effects, Pierre Gamet - Sound/Sound Designer, Fernando Trueba - Screenwriter, David Trueba - Screenwriter
