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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.
Modern Problems (1981): Dir: Ken Shapiro / Cast: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Dabney Coleman, Nell Carter: Innovative high strung comedy that takes average daily issues and jacks them up on steroids. Chevy Chase plays airline controller Maxwell Fiedler whose girlfriend moves out because of his jealousy issues.
Chevy Chase ... Max Fielder: Patti D'Arbanville ... Darcy: Dabney Coleman ... Mark Winslow: Mary Kay Place ... Lorraine: Nell Carter ... Dorita: Brian Doyle-Murray ... Brian Stills: Mitch Kreindel ... Barry: Arthur Sellers ... Mobile Supervisor: Sandy Helberg ... Pete
Details. 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.
- 92 min
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 him, the...
- Comedy
Chevy Chase is an air traffic controller having problems. He is having little success winning back his girlfriend until nuclear waste spills on his car giving him telekentic powers. The once meek, but now suddenly "empowered" Chase begins to wreak havoc on those who have annoyed him culminating in a weekend getaway at his friend's beach house ...
