Lucky Stiff

- language: English
- director: Christopher Ashley
- actor: Anthony Skordi Dennis Farina Dominic Marsh Don Amendolia Herschel Sparber Jason Alexander Jayne Houdyshell Kate Shindle Kent Avenido Maggie Carney Mary Birdsong Mary Jo Catlett Nikki M. James Pamela Shaw Steve West
- writer: Lynn Ahrens
Synopsis:
Young Harry Witherspoon is a down-at-heel shoe salesman with a dead end job and no prospects, so when he receives an unexpected letter informing him that he has just been named the beneficiary of a huge inheritance, it seems like Harry’s ship is finally about to come in. Little does Harry know, his ship is sailing in a sea of sharks. All he has to do to claim the $6 million fortune is fulfill his uncle’s dying request to take him on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Monte Carlo and help him tick off his bucket list. There’s just one small catch: his uncle is already dead. A few other things stand between Harry and his dream, including his controlling, myopic, trigger-happy sister (Pamela Shaw), a desperate, put-upon optometrist (Jason Alexander), an avaricious French chanteuse (Kate Shindle), a mysterious Italian playboy (Dennis Farina) and a mysterious young woman from Brooklyn determined to get that money for her own ends…
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