Big Trouble

Big Trouble follows a group of Miami residents whose lives collide over a mysterious suitcase. Among them are a divorced advertising man who wants to write for a newspaper, his teenage son and the boy's girlfriend, her mother and the mother's wealthy second husband, two hitmen hired to kill the husband, a pair of bumbling street criminals, two FBI agents and a homeless man who wanders into the middle of everything. Based on humorist Dave Barry's first novel, the film builds its comedy from the way these strangers keep crossing paths as they chase the suitcase and its contents.

Barry Sonnenfeld directed, working from a screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone. The film sits between Men in Black II and RV in the run of ten features Sonnenfeld has directed, a stretch that began with The Addams Family in 1991 and includes Get Shorty and two Men in Black sequels. Tim Allen leads as Eliot Arnold, with Rene Russo, Ben Foster, Jason Lee, Stanley Tucci and Dennis Farina among the main cast. Fifty-three performers and forty-five crew members are credited.

Released in April 2002, the film runs 85 minutes. Against a production budget of about 40 million dollars, it earned roughly 8 million worldwide, a result that places it well below the director's most commercially successful comedies. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.1 out of 10 from 341 votes.