Odd Jobs
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Directed by	Mark Story
Written by	Robert Conte Peter Martin Wortmann
Produced by	Keith Rubinstein
Starring	Paul Reiser Robert Townsend
Cinematography	Arthur Albert
Edited by	Dennis M. Hill
Music by	Robert Folk
Production companies	HBO Pictures Silver Screen Partners
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date	March 1986 (1986-03)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Odd Jobs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Mark Story.^[1] It was the last film distributed by TriStar Pictures before HBO dropped out of the TriStar venture and sold half of its shares to Columbia Pictures (later sold to Sony).

Plot

College students Max (Paul Reiser) and Dwight (Robert Townsend) form a moving company to pay for tuition. Along the way they cross the mob who runs a rival moving company.

Cast

• Paul Reiser as Max
• Robert Townsend as Dwight
• Scott McGinnis as Woody
• Rick Overton as Roy
• Paul Provenza as Byron
• Leo Burmester as Wylie D. Daiken
• Thomas Quinn as Frankie
• Savannah Smith Boucher as Loretta & Lynette
• Richard Dean Anderson as Spud
• Richard Foronjy as Manny
• Ken Olfson as Mayor Brady
• Charlie Dell as Earl
• Starletta DuPois as Dwight's Mother
• Don Imus as Monty Leader
• Wayne Grace as Roy's Father
• Julianne Phillips as Sally
• Leon Askin as Don Carlucci
• Andra Akers as Mrs. Finelli
• Chuck Pfeiffer as The Doris Bodyguard & Dead Meat
• Jill Goodacre as Co-Ed
• Tom Dugan

Critical reception

The movie received generally poor reviews. The Sun-Sentinel called it "insufferable" and full of "stupid sight gags and pointless jokes."^[2]