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Watch: Modern Problems 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little re….
Plot: Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
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Ratings:

	5.0/10 Votes: 5,545
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	27/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 67 Popularity: 5.593 | TMDB

Reviews:

Quirky ’80s comedy hasn’t aged well…
“Modern Problems” was one of those movies that got a lot of play on HBO when I was a kid in the early 80s, and since I was a big Chevy Chase fan at the time, I watched it over and over again. Nearly 30 years later, the film had all but faded from my memory except for a few random bits so when it turned up on Fox Movie Channel over the weekend I decided to give it a shot.

90 minutes later I’m sitting here thinking to myself “Wow, this was pretty bad wasn’t it?”, and I’m not sure if the film hadn’t aged well, or if it simply wasn’t a very good film to begin with. All I can say is that I remember enjoying it a heck of a lot more as an easier-to-impress 12 year old.

Chase plays Max, a stressed out Air Traffic Controller who’s got serious relationship problems. He’s recently broken up with his live-in girlfriend, and his ex-wife (Mary Kay Place), whom he apparently has kept a friendly relationship with, is now “schtupping” (that’s an exact quote) an old friend of his from high school (Brian Doyle-Murray, aka Bill’s brother). As if that weren’t enough, a chance meeting with a leaky Nuclear Waste truck on the highway one night splatters him with radioactive goo, and he wakes up the next morning with telekinetic powers.

You’d think that this would be a license to do a totally go-for-broke slapstick comedy but oddly enough very little is made of Max’s newfound abilities till the film is almost over. Chase isn’t his usual wild-and-wacky self either, preferring to mope around mooning over his girlfriend (Patti D’Arbanville). Eventually the dysfunctional foursome (Chase, D’arbanville, Doyle-Murray, and Place) go off to Murray’s beach house to spend the weekend, joined by one of Murray’s clients, an insufferable self-help author played by Dabney Coleman. Coleman is the funniest thing in the film, as his constant jabs and insults finally poke Chase’s character into a full on telekinetic meltdown that can only be stopped by a voodoo ritual (?) performed by Murray’s Haitian housekeeper (Nell Carter).

“Modern Problems” tries to be quirky and wacky but spends most of the film falling flat on its face. It’s got a decent cast and an interesting premise, but its greatest sin is that it casts a gifted comic like Chase and then tells him to be morose and unfunny for much of the run time (till he finally explodes towards the end).

There are a few good bits (Chase using his power to give a guy a massive nosebleed in the middle of a swanky restaurant is a highlight, as is the entire “voodoo” scene) but otherwise “Modern Problems” isn’t very “modern” anymore. Easily skippable even for hardcore Chevy Chase fans.

Underrated
This is an underrated treasure of movie. Chevy is not only funny but plays a sweet vulnerable guy. And all the other actors are great – Dabney Coleman & Brian Doyle Murray. Lots of laughs and a lot of 1981 zeitgeist.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 26154211
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director Ken Shapiro
Writer Ken Shapiro, Tom Sherohman, Arthur Sellers
Actors Chevy Chase, Patti D’Arbanville, Dabney Coleman
Country N/A
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm