Montgomery Brewster plays a minor-league baseball pitcher for the Hackensack Bulls who inherits 300 million dollars from a distant relative, according to The Movie Buff.
Universal Pictures released the comedy in May of 1985, starring iconic standup comedian Richard Pryor as the lead character.
In the film, Brewster is a has-been baseball player and former Chicago Cubs major-league star who is now on a low-level minor-league squad where an active train runs through the outfield, causing temporary game delays.
His fortunes shift when he is summoned to a law firm and learns that an ornery uncle whom he has never met has died and left him a massive fortune of $300 million dollars. Yet a major stipulation applies: failing to correctly burn through $30 million dollars over the span of 30 days while abiding by numerous restrictions means forfeiting the entire inheritance.
Pryor anchors the production by acting as the straight man for much of the story, giving the goofy plot an even-keeled temperament. The supporting cast features John Candy as Montgomery’s teammate and best friend, Spike Nolan, marking a pairing of talents that only shared the screen this one time.
Alongside them, Lonette McKee portrays a paralegal and prospective romantic interest, Stephen Collins appears as her obnoxious attorney fiancé, and Hume Cronyn pops up in a single scene as the eccentric uncle Brewster, using a recorded video to lay out every single condition required to claim the cash.
The 100-minute film is set in New York City, featuring scenes at the stadium, in bars, big law firms, corporate offices, and Manhattan finance, complete with a skyline shot of the Twin Towers looming over the Brooklyn Bridge.