Bourse, bagne & business

Original title: Buy & Cell

1988
R
1h 35m

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Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmate... Read allHerbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison un... Read allHerbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate ... Read all

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4jellopuke

BAD with a capitol B

A naive stockbroker is set up to take the fall for another crooked one and gets sent to prison. From there he starts a business with the cons money and miraculously makes so much that they turn the prison into a luxury condo only to have the warden get wind and want in.

The only way to look at this movie is if it's a sequel to Revenge of the Nerds where Louis meets Jones before he becomes a cop in Police Academy. At least that way you have two way better movies in mind because this is BAD. It's not funny at all. The guy doing impressions is so lame and having sound effects guy running wild isn't better. Roddy Piper seems confused and McDowell looks like he doesn't give a crap. Overall a BAD movie.

3emm

Buy it or sell it! Best of all, TRASH IT!

Your hard life will never be complete without another stupid comedy movie from the late 80s that offers plenty of terrible nonsense. Michael Winslow didn't provide enough of the usual noises he was famous for in the POLICE ACADEMY series, which didn't matter at all. Everything else is substandard as always. Before investing interest in BUY & CELL, consider watching Comedy Central's lame-duck movies and decide for yourself.

Coxer99

Buy & Cell

Lame comedy about an ambitious young stockbroker who trades in his pin stripes for prison blues when he is framed for stock fraud. With the help of his fellow inmates, he parlays $300 into a successful company, only to take down the people who framed him.

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Trivia
Roddy Piper is credited as "Cowboy". Piper, throughout much of his first stint in the WWF was a heel (villian) whose bodyguard was a wrestler named "Cowboy" Bob Orton.

Goofs
When Wolf fires off his shotgun in the yard during the fight, it's pointed directly at an inmate who is hanging from the wall to get a better view.