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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

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A 1997 Black Comedy film directed by Tom Schuman and starring Joe Pesci.Mob Courier Tommy Spinelli (Pesci) has been ordered by his superior to bring back eight decapitated victims' heads. At the airport he crosses paths with a young med-school graduate who's about to join his girlfriend and her parents at a hotel in Mexico. When Spinelli reaches his destination, he finds that he and the med student have inadvertently swapped luggage. Hilarity Ensues.Also features Kristy Swanson, David Spade, Dyan Cannon, and George Hamilton.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Annette raids her mini bar after finding the heads.
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Decapitation Presentation
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Decapitation Presentation: As you'd expect from the title.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Charlie, most of the time.
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: "Heads up! Stop ahead. Anybody need to use the head?", etc.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Some of the dialogue spoken by the Mexican characters is untranslated from the original Spanish (which doesn't hurt the film too much, because their comments tend to be popular Spanish phrases that most English speakers know or at least have heard of).
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Quite a few characters, but most notably Pesci's and Spade's.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: The character of Tommy Spinelli is obviously indebted to Joe Pesci's many short-tempered mobster characters. In fact, a gag credit at the end of the film lists "Tommy Devito" (Pesci's character in GoodFellas) as a bodyguard for Spinelli. Also, this is hardly the first time that Kristy Swanson has had a rich idiot father and gone vacationing in Mexico.
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No Mere Windmill
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No Mere Windmill: Annette is the first person in the family to discover one of the severed heads. But because she has a drinking problem (and, in fact, happened upon the head precisely because she was trying to sneak some booze), the rest of the family just assume that she's experiencing a psychotic reaction as a result of her alcoholism.
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Faux Action Girl
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Faux Action Girl: Laurie is talked up by her fiancé as a race-car driver, but this is never mentioned again. She also does only token badass things such as slapping people and clonking another woman over the head with a vase.
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Body in a Breadbox
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Body in a Breadbox: Right there in the title.
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"Just Joking" Justification
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"Just Joking" Justification: Charlie tries this on Laurie after frightening her invokedout of the closet (where she is hiding from one of the severed heads) by saying, "The bodies are in there!" Laurie isn't biting.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Dick Bennett, again. All he wanted was to do some fishing in Mexico, and he ends up getting wrongfully arrested for murder, tortured during interrogation, and is implied to get raped while temporarily in jail.
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Screaming Woman
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Screaming Woman: Both generations of Bennett females.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Don't sass-talk Spinelli, or he just might throw you out of a speeding minivan.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: The trauma of being held prisoner by a gangster and being forced to help decapitate cryogenics patients takes quite the toll on poor Steve, and he ends the movie in a mental institution.
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Hair-Trigger Temper
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Tommy. Naturally.
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Demanding Their Head
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Demanding Their Head: Tommy Spinelli works for The Mafia and has been ordered by his superior to bring back the heads of eight decapitated victims as proof of their deaths.
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Product Delivery Ordeal
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Product Delivery Ordeal: Mob Courier Tommy Spinelli receives orders from his superior to transport the heads of eight decapitated victims across the United States as proof of their deaths. While taking a commercial flight, he crosses paths with Charlie, young med school graduate on his way to Mexico, and the two of them end up inadvertently switching their luggage because they had identical black duffel bags. Hilarity ensues as Spinelli tries to track down Charlie and retrieve the heads (and procure replacements from the cryonics lab at Charlie's med school, as some of the original heads get lost along the way) in order to complete the delivery.
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Deer in the Headlights
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Deer in the Headlights: Laurie.
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Dick's mother. She's so unbearable that Tommy ends up throwing her out of a moving car and down a cliff. Annette is very happy.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Whenever David Spade shows up in a film, you can count on it.
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Maximum Fun Chamber
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Maximum Fun Chamber: Dick's treatment in the Mexican prison.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Grandma. She keeps insulting and ranting at Spinelli right up until the moment he shoves her over a cliff.
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: "Didn't I tell you to watch your fucking language?"
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Bumbling Dad
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Bumbling Dad: Dick Bennett (George Hamilton's character)
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: "Would you like an enchilada?"
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Cool and Unusual Punishment
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: Spinelli is pretty good at this.
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I Lied
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I Lied: When Laurie finds one of the heads, she screams loud enough for the entire hotel staff to hear. Charlie quickly grabs Laurie and muffles her mouth with his hand just as one of the employees opens the door. Charlie reassures him that everything is fine, prompting the employee to leave. Then Charlie tells Laurie that he will let her go if she promises not to scream again. Laurie gives her word - and then, once she is free, immediately resumes screaming!
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Description Cut
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Description Cut: Charlie tells Laurie that Ernie and Steve have dull lives. Cut to them being tortured by Tommy.
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Satchel Switcheroo
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Satchel Switcheroo: The basis of the plot.
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Where Do You Think You Are?
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Where Do You Think You Are?: On more than one occasion, Charlie has to remind Laurie that many things they take for granted in the U.S. are not the same in Mexico. For example, he explains that in Mexico the police are massively corrupt (which, unfortunately, is Truth in Television).
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: When Annette finds the heads and assumes that Charlie is the killer, she instantly gets between Charlie and her daughter.
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It Was Here, I Swear!
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It Was Here, I Swear!: Annette takes Dick to Charlie's room to show him the heads, but the maids already removed them.
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Ham-to-Ham Combat
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: Any scene in which Joe Pesci confronts David Spade, or in which Joe Pesci confronts Ernestine Mercer (the actress playing the grandmother).
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Tommy Spinelli of course, but quite a few other characters as well.
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Laurie is supposedly a race-car driver, but we never see her race.
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Lady Drunk
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Lady Drunk: Annette.
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