8 Heads in a Duffel Bag is a 1997 American black comedy film starring Joe Pesci and David Spade. It was the directorial debut of screenwriter Tom Schulman. In 1998 the film won the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Silver Raven award.
Tommy Spinelli (Pesci), is a wiseguy hired by a pair of dimwitted hitmen to transport a duffel bag full of decapitated heads across the country to a crime boss (as proof of the deaths). Unfortunately...
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag is a 1997 American black comedy film starring Joe Pesci and David Spade. It was the directorial debut of screenwriter Tom Schulman. In 1998 the film won the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film's Silver Raven award.
Tommy Spinelli (Pesci), is a wiseguy hired by a pair of dimwitted hitmen to transport a duffel bag full of decapitated heads across the country to a crime boss (as proof of the deaths). Unfortunately for Spinelli, the bag gets switched with an identical bag belonging to Charlie Pritchett (Comeau), an American tourist on his way to a vacation in Mexico with his girlfriend (Swanson) and her parents. Spinelli works to track down the missing heads, while Pritchett attempts to rid himself of his unwanted baggage.
The film was a box-office flop, earning just under $4 million in its entire theatrical run.
The film on the whole was not critically well-received either. Although Roger Ebert praised Joe Pesci's performance as being "the best thing...
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