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Watch Pepper and His Wacky Taxi with a subscription on Prime Video. A Mexican-American, Pepper (John Astin), has big dreams of striking it rich, but very little capital to make those dreams a ...
- John Astin
- Comedy
- John Astin, Frank Sinatra Jr., Jackie Gayle
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This movie premiered as "Pepper" at The Lakewood Center Theater, Lakewood is a suburb 25 miles outside of Hollywood, which should have been indicative of the low expectations the studio had for this film. The meandering plot was impossible to stay involved with. And it simply wasn't funny. I did get to meet John Astin, so I give it an extra star.
Astin plays Pepe "Pepper" Morales, a Mexican-American who's struggling to support his four children and pregnant wife Maria (Maria Pohji). Always brimming with half-baked get-rich schemes, Pepper abruptly walks out of his stable-but-boring blue collar "slave" job at an aluminum can company and decides to start his own one-man taxi service. He ...
Wacky Taxi: Directed by Alexander Grasshoff, John Astin. With John Astin, Maria Pogee, Tom Dikel, Jim Dikel. A man unsatisfied in his job decides to start a taxi service.
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- Comedy, Family
- Alexander Grasshoff, John Astin
- 79
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