Big Trouble is a 2002 American comedic film based on the novel Big Trouble by Dave Barry. It was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and featured a large cast including Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel and Jason Lee. Like much of Sonnenfeld's fiction, it follows a diverse group of people through a series of extremely strange and humorous situations against the backdrop of Miami. In a high-school game of "Killer", Matt Arnold has to "kill" classmate Jenny Herk, and decides to sneak up on her at home. By coincidence, hitmen are also there to kill Arthur Herk, who has secretly... embezzled money from his company, Penultra Corp. When the fake assassination attempt crosses paths with the real one, police officers Monica Romero and Walter Kramitz are called out to the resulting disturbance. During the chaos of the assassination attempts, Matt's friend, Andrew, called Eliot Arnold, Matt's father. Upon arriving to pick up Matt from the Herk's, Eliot immediately feels a mutual attraction to Anne Herk, Jenny's mother, as Matt and Jenny begin to feel attracted to each other as well.
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| Release date: | 2002 |
| Directed by: | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 85 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jim Wedaa, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tom Jacobson, Barry Josephson, Chris Soldo, Graham Place |
| Editor: | Steven Weisberg |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | Greg Gardiner |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone |
| Estimated budget: | $40,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Big Trouble |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |