Opportunity Knocks is a 1990 comedy film, starring Dana Carvey as a Chicago con man who assumes the identity of the friend of a wealthy businessman who is on vacation, and ends up falling in love with the man's sister.
Con men Eddie Farrel (Carvey) and Lou Pesquino (Todd Graff) need cash fast and pretend to be repair men to fix a fake gas leak. The con doesn't work, and after they escape, they find an empty house that they decide to burglarize. H...
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Opportunity Knocks is a 1990 comedy film, starring Dana Carvey as a Chicago con man who assumes the identity of the friend of a wealthy businessman who is on vacation, and ends up falling in love with the man's sister.
Con men Eddie Farrel (Carvey) and Lou Pesquino (Todd Graff) need cash fast and pretend to be repair men to fix a fake gas leak. The con doesn't work, and after they escape, they find an empty house that they decide to burglarize. However, when they learn from a message on the answering machine that the owner is out of the country and the man who was going to house sit can't make it, they spend the night instead. The next day, on the run from thugs sent by local gangster Sal Nichols (James Tolkan), to whom they owe money, they find themselves separated from each other and Eddie takes refuge in the empty house. In the morning, Eddie walks out of the shower and meets Mona Malkin (Doris Belack), whose son owns the house. She assumes Eddie is her son's friend Jonathan...
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