The Best of Times

Jan 31, 1986

1h 44m

★ 5.6

A comedy about life, hope, and getting even.

Overview

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Kings Road Entertainment

Universal Pictures

The Best of Times Trailers

Cast

Jack Dundee

Robin Williams

Reno Hightower

Kurt Russell

Gigi Hightower

Pamela Reed

Elly Dundee

Holly Palance

Herbert ("The Colonel")

Donald Moffat

Darla Robinson

Margaret Whitton

Charlie

M. Emmet Walsh

Eddie

Donovan Scott

Schutte

R.G. Armstrong

Mac

Dub Taylor

Arturo

Carl Ballantine

Rosie

Kathleen Freeman

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

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6.6

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6.1

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5.5

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6.2

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