The Big Kahuna

The Big Kahuna

1999 · 90 min · EN · 6.8 (319 votes)
Dir. John Swanbeck · Starring Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli, Paul Dawson, Christopher Donahue, Ron Komora · Music Christopher Young
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Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.

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A pressure cooker of existential dread and corporate desperation. It feels like a long, uncomfortable night trapped in a hotel room with strangers, where faith, friendship, and the meaning of it all are put to the ultimate test.

awkwardtensephilosophicaldarkly comedicsteadydialogue-drivencontained thrilleroffice comedylate-90s indiefaithmasculinitycorporate cultureexistentialism
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