For Pete's Sake
1974 · Movie · PG · 90 min · ★ 5.8 · 61% critics
A cash-strapped Brooklyn wife secretly borrows from a loan shark to help fund her husband’s big market gamble. When the investment goes bad, she scrambles to repay the debt, bouncing through a string of increasingly chaotic schemes while trying to keep the trouble hidden at home.
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Details
- Years
- 1974
- Release date
- 1974-06-26
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (25 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a zany, 1970s screwball comedy about money troubles and escalating mishaps, especially if you like the vibe of Snowball Express; Not for you if you need consistently sharp humor or modern sensibilities.
Pros: energetic lead performance; some big laughs; lively 1970s New York | Cons: uneven humor; weak script; dated and uncomfortable bits
Themes
- new york city
- money
- loan shark
Cast & crew
Barbra Streisand
as Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins
Michael Sarrazin
as Pete Robbins
Estelle Parsons
as Helen Robbins
Molly Picon
as Mrs. Cherry
William Redfield
as Fred Robbins
Louis Zorich
as Nick
Heywood Hale Broun
as Judge Hiller
Richard Ward
as Bernie
- EB
Ed Bakey
as Angelo
Peter Mamakos
as Dominic
Directed by Peter Yates