Men at Work (1990)

PG-13  |   |  Action, Comedy, Crime  |  24 August 1990 (USA)
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Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As ... See full summary »

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Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As she leaves he shoots the man with a pellet gun. Hiding, he and James miss two men strangling the man and leaving with the body. When he appears in a can on their route they are afraid and hide the body, fearing that they may be implicated in the death. Trying to crack the case, they spy on the woman, join up with a slightly to majorly crazed Vietnam vet, kidnap a pizza man and help to protect the ecology. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

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$16,247,964 (USA)
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Charlie Sheen previously played Chris Taylor in Platoon (1986). In Men at Work he plays Carl Taylor. A "grunt" that gets paired up with yet another crazed Vietnam vet in Keith David (I)'s character, Louis Fedders. See more »

Goofs

When Carl and James are eating lunch Carl's (Charlie Sheen), bottle of Budweiser rotates between camera shots to always have the top red label 'Bud' towards the the camera without being touched. See more »

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[first lines]
Jack Berger: I can't support this activity any longer, Max.
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References Rear Window (1954) See more »

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MOVE SOMETHING
Performed by 2 Live Crew
Written by Luther Campbell, Brother Marquis (as Mark Ross), Mr. Mixx (as David Hobbs) and Fresh Kid Ice (as Chris Wong Won)
Publisher Pac Jam Publishing
Courtesy of Skyywalker Records
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Funny as hell!!
23 June 2003 | by (elyria, ohio) – See all my reviews

Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez star as two garbagemen on the road to nowhere. One night, in Carl's (Sheen) apartment, they see a confrontation between a couple across the street. Carl shoots him with a pellet gun after he sees the man push the woman. What he doesn't see after that is two men go into the apartment and kill the man, put his body in a garbage can, and leave. Carl and James then find the body the next day on their garbage route. Then all hell breaks loose as they try to find the killer. Very funny movie!!


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