Fire Sale

Fire Sale (1977)

The Fikus Family: They're Not Roasted. They're Not Salted. They're Just Plain Nuts.

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.

Date of release
1977-06-09
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Alan Arkin

Casting

Interesting facts

Fire Sale is a 1977 American comedy film starring Alan Arkin as Ezra Fikus, Rob Reiner as his brother Russell, Vincent Gardenia as their father Benny, Sid Caesar as Benny's brother Sherman, Anjanette Comer as Marion, and Kay Medford as Ruth.

Background

The film was based on the book of the same name by Robert Klane, who had previously collaborated with producer Marvin Worth on the film adaptation of Where's Poppa?

This was Byron Stewart's first ever acting role and, per Ken Howard's commentary on The White Shadow Season 1 DVDs, got him the role of Warren Coolidge.

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