CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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Used Cars posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1980 1h 53m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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A high-speed dealership comedy built around flamboyant salesmanship, desperate schemes and gleefully tasteless escalation—the closest modern cousin to Used Cars’ anarchic car-lot energy.

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Why this pick

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A loose, lively workplace comedy with an ensemble of oddballs, vulgar jokes and a bustling automotive-business backdrop; it shares Used Cars’ rowdy, lived-in comic texture.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

Rudolph 'Rudy' Russo

Frank McRae

Frank McRae

Jim, the Mechanic

Deborah Harmon

Barbara Jane Fuchs

Harry Northup

Carmine

Al Lewis

Judge Harrison

Marc McClure

Marc McClure

Heavy Duty Dubois

Joe Flaherty

Joe Flaherty

Sam Slaton (as Joseph P. Flaherty)

Jack Warden

Jack Warden

Roy L. Fuchs / Luke Fuchs