Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
Acting
Carvey's physical comedy—dude commits to every twitch.
Writing
The answering machine setup is actually tight mechanics.
Director
Donald Petrie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carvey developed the character during his SNL tenure; the 'Church Lady' energy bleeds through in Eddie's panic-lying.
This was one of the last pure con-man comedies before the genre got darker (Matchstick Men, Catch Me If You Can); it believes people are basically good, which feels almost radical now.
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