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Modern Problems is a 1981 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Ken Shapiro and starring Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, and Dabney Coleman. The film grossed $26.2 million on an $8 million budget (about $88 million on a $27 million budget, in today's currency) in the United States.
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Air traffic controller Max (Chevy Chase) has a life so stressful that he feels himself constantly on the verge of a breakdown. When his girlfriend, Darcy (Patti D'Arbanville), leaves...
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Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
While driving home from work, a frazzled air-traffic controller finds himself blessed with telekinetic powers when a nuclear dumptruck spills some slimy green matter on him. He uses this power for revenge and ends up with some bizarre problems. 1,173 IMDb 5.0 1 h 32 min 1981. X-Ray PG.
Max is an air traffic controller who is having problems at his job and in his love life. After he is exposed to nuclear waste, Max finds that he has developed telekinetic powers and uses them to settle some scores and improve his life.
Max Fielder (Chevy Chase) is having a terrible day. He hates his job, his girlfriend left him, and on his way home from work a dumptruck spills nuclear waste on him and his car. Max regains some optimism after he realizes the fallout from the radiation has given him magical, telekinetic powers!
Modern Problems features Chevy Chase's smugness in pure form, front and center as he smirks, bugs his eyes, puffs his cheeks and chuckles to himself while zapping people with nuclear waste-endowed telekinetic powers.
