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Pepper and His Wacky Taxi

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A Mexican-American, Pepper (John Astin), has big dreams of striking it rich, but very little capital to make those dreams a reality. But one day Pepper quits his factory job and uses his life savings -- such as they are -- to buy a beat-up jalopy, which he transforms into a taxi. He prowls the streets looking for fares, always trying to stay away from the cops, as his business is illegal. His dreams sour, though, when the car is stolen. He must get it back or lose everything.
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Audience Member What the **** were you thinking, Frank Sinatra Jr.?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You ruined your life faster than your late dad Frank Sinatra Sr.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow! ********s!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Strangely watchable so you sit there watching it thinking it might build to something... and it never does. There's no real ending or resolution, just a montage of recycled footage, some narration over a final "See? Everything worked out just fine!" shot and no comeuppance for Frank Sinatra Jr.'s car thief character Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This really starts going off the rails towards the end, but is good for at least one watch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I bought this movie based on the title. Later, I found out it starred John Astin and featured cameos by Jackie Gayle, Allen Sherman AND Frank Sinatra, Jr(!)Despite the title and its "wacky" advertising, promising the star in all his Gomez Addams, glory, Instead, it's a surprisingly low-key (and very low-budget) character-based indy, filmed in some of the less picturesque areas of San Diego. Astin is plays it straight as the flaky struggling, entrepreneur and, thankfully, refrains for any attempt at a Spanish accent. It's pretty slight but a nice little surprise. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A Mexican-American, Pepper (John Astin), has big dreams of striking it rich, but very little capital to make those dreams a reality. But one day Pepper quits his factory job and uses his life savings -- such as they are -- to buy a beat-up jalopy, which he transforms into a taxi. He prowls the streets looking for fares, always trying to stay away from the cops, as his business is illegal. His dreams sour, though, when the car is stolen. He must get it back or lose everything.
Director
John Astin
Screenwriter
Alexander Grasshoff
Production Co
Capri Films
Rating
G
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2016
Runtime
1h 21m
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