Buy & Cell
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Premise
Herbie Altman is framed by his business partner and sent to jail where he sets up "Con Inc." an investment company with the help of those around him. This is due to the fact that he helped a fellow inmate to invest his money. He runs the business under the nose of the police wardens.[1]
Principal cast
- Robert Carradine as Herbie Altman
- Michael Winslow as Sly
- Malcolm McDowell as Warden Tennant
- Lise Cutter as Dr. Ellen Scott
- Randall "Tex" Cobb as Wolf
- Ben Vereen as Shaka
- Tony Plana as Raoul
- Roddy Piper as Cowboy
- Michael Goodwin as Reggie
- Fred Travalena as 'VCR'
- Mickey Knox as Arthur
- Tony Carroll as Duke
Availability
The movie was released on videocassette in 1989 by New World. The tape itself is notable for having trailers for the films Warlock and The Punisher, both of which were passed on to separate studios after New World fell into bankruptcy. In 1991, Starmaker Video released a tape in the EP Mode. A DVD has been released in Australia and in the Netherlands, but as of December 22, 2009, no plans for a Region 1 DVD have been announced.
Critical reception
Leonard Maltin called the film an "uninteresting would-be comedy."[2] TV Guide wrote, "Clumsy financial satire set in the USA but shot cheaply in Italy. (...)Despite (or perhaps because of) its virtuous intentions, Buy & Cell is dated and largely unfunny."[3]
From All Movie Guide:
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Lame, predictable story which wastes a talanted cast.[4]
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- 1988 films
- 1980s crime comedy films
- American business films
- American crime comedy films
- Empire International Pictures films
- 1980s English-language films
- Films directed by Robert Boris
- Films shot in Italy
- American independent films
- 1980s prison films
- Stock trading films
- 1980s business films
- 1988 independent films
- 1980s American films
- English-language independent films
- English-language crime comedy films