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The Big Kahuna is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 28 april 2000 with Kevin Spacey

The Big Kahuna (2000)

The Big Kahuna
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Released in USA 28 april 2000
Length 1h30
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating65% 3.2522153.2522153.2522153.2522153.252215

The Big Kahuna is a 1999 American comedy-drama film adapted from the play Hospitality Suite, written by Roger Rueff, who also wrote the screenplay. John Swanbeck, the director, makes few attempts to lessen this film's resemblance to a stage performance: the majority of the film takes place in a single hotel room, and nearly every single line of dialogue is spoken by one of the three actors.

The famous 1997 essay Wear Sunscreen is featured at the end of the film.

Synopsis

Larry Mann (Kevin Spacey) and Phil Cooper (Danny DeVito), experienced marketing representatives for a company that sells industrial lubricants, are attending a trade show in the American Midwest with Bob Walker (Peter Facinelli), a novice sales rep. Larry and Phil are close friends with a long history together. Larry faces urgent financial difficulties that he alludes to only obliquely; Phil has recently come through a recovery program for alcoholism. Bob, an earnest young Baptist, has few if any regrets. Together they hope to arrange a meeting with the head of a large company. Larry refers to their quarry as 'the Big Kahuna.

Actors

Kevin Spacey

(Larry Mann)
Danny DeVito

(Phil Cooper)
Peter Facinelli

(Bob Walker)
Paul Dawson

(Bellboy)
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