Taglines: Revenge is sweet (and surprisingly affordable)
Dirty Work movie storyline. Growing up, friends Mitch Weaver (Norm Macdonald) and Sam McKenna (Artie Lange) are taught by Sam’s hard-nosed dad, “Pops” McKenna (Jack Warden), not to “take crap from anyone”. To that end, the pair plant a bunch of guns in a schoolyard bully’s desk and have him arrested for gun possession; next, they catch a kid-fondling crossing guard in the act, after having applied Krazy Glue to the bottom of Mitch’s pants.
As adults, after losing fourteen jobs in three months and being dumped by his girlfriend, Mitch moves in with Sam and Pops, who then has a heart attack. In the hospital, Pops confides that, because of their parents’ swinging lifestyle, he is also Mitch’s father. Even though Pops’ heart is failing, Dr. Farthing (Chevy Chase), a hopeless gambler, will raise Mr. McKenna’s position on the transplant waiting list if he is paid $50,000, to save himself from his bookie. Mitch and Sam get jobs in a cinema with an abusive manager (Don Rickles) and exact their revenge by showing Men In Black (Who Like To Have Sex With Each Other) to a packed house. The other workers congratulate them and suggest they go into business.
Dirty Work is a 1998 American comedy buddy film starring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, and Traylor Howard and directed by Bob Saget. In the film, long-time friends Mitch (Macdonald) and Sam (Lange) start a revenge-for-hire business, and work to fund heart surgery for Sam’s father Pops (Warden). When they take on work for an unscrupulous businessman (Christopher McDonald), in order to be paid, they create a revenge scheme of their own. Adam Sandler makes a cameo appearance as Satan.
Dirty Work (1998)
Directed by: Bob Saget
Starring: Norm Macdonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles, Christopher McDonald, Chevy Chase, Bradley Reid, Joseph Sicilia, Austin Pool
Screenplay by: Frank Sebastiano, Norm Macdonald, Fred Wolf
Production Design by: Gregory P. Keen
Cinematography by: Arthur Albert
Film Editing by: George Folsey Jr.
Costume Design by: Beth Pasternak
Set Decoration by: Jaro Dick
Art Direction by: Gordon Lebredt
Music by: Richard Gibbs
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude sexual humor and language.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: June 12, 1998
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