Opportunity Knocks has Dana Carvey and Todd Graff as a pair of small time grifters who steal a car from loan shark James Tolkan and strip it and junk it. Trouble is that neither of these two lunkheads bothered to look in the trunk where $60,000.00 of Tolkan's collection money is. Needless to say that's got Tolkan upset and he's after these two.
Who take place in a house that looks closed up. But by checking the answering machine find out that the owner has gone to India for three months and the fellow who is supposed to house sit has gotten a sudden job offer and he's blown town. What a perfect hideout.
But then parents Robert Loggia and Sally Belack show up of the owner and Carvey who is alone pretends he's the housesitter and they invite him to lunch at their club. Where Carvey meets Julie Campbell who is their daughter and a doctor. It's the dream of every red blooded American to meet and marry a man/woman of medicine.
The reformed conman is a plot device that's been done quite a lot in film, in one case set to music in The Music Man. But Opportunity Knocks goes way over the top here. Carvey and Graff should have taken their losses and run with a little bit of getaway cash they have courtesy of Loggia. What happens after Carvey gets that out of Loggia is too too absurd.
Who take place in a house that looks closed up. But by checking the answering machine find out that the owner has gone to India for three months and the fellow who is supposed to house sit has gotten a sudden job offer and he's blown town. What a perfect hideout.
But then parents Robert Loggia and Sally Belack show up of the owner and Carvey who is alone pretends he's the housesitter and they invite him to lunch at their club. Where Carvey meets Julie Campbell who is their daughter and a doctor. It's the dream of every red blooded American to meet and marry a man/woman of medicine.
The reformed conman is a plot device that's been done quite a lot in film, in one case set to music in The Music Man. But Opportunity Knocks goes way over the top here. Carvey and Graff should have taken their losses and run with a little bit of getaway cash they have courtesy of Loggia. What happens after Carvey gets that out of Loggia is too too absurd.