Mixed Nuts
Dvd Collection- Main Level- Comedy MIX
Imagine running a non-profit suicide prevention hotline at Christmastime, only you’re being evicted from your office, your fiancée has just dumped you over the phone, and your hotline is getting crank calls from a pervert/serial killer. Welcome to Philip’s life! His coworkers aren’t doing too well either: Mrs. Munchnik (Madeline Kahn) is stuck in the elevator with a re-gifted fruitcake, and Catherine (Rita Wilson) finds herself still living with her mother with only her job to comfort her. Add to that some visitors -an armed Santa Claus, an enraged pregnant woman, and a depressed transvestite with dance fever- and Philip (Steve Martin) is having one heck of a Christmas.
This 1994 film, if a little bizarre, never fails to give my family our holiday chortles, and we take this beautiful message from Philip to heart: “Just remember that in every pothole there is hope. Well, you see, pothole is spelled P-O-T-H-O-L-E. So if you take the P, and add it to the H, the O, and the E, and rearrange the letters... or contrariwise, you remove the O, T, and the L, you get ‘hope.’ So, just remember, in every pothole there is hope!”