History Film / EightHeadsInADuffelBag

Mob courier Tommy Spinelli (Pesci) has been ordered by his superior to bring back eight decapitated victims' heads. At the airport he crosses paths with a young med-school graduate who's about to join his girlfriend and her parents at a hotel in Mexico. When Spinelli reaches his destination, he finds that he and the med student have inadvertently swapped luggage. HilarityEnsues.

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Pirate Who Doesn't Do Anything]]: Laurie is supposedly a race-car driver, but we never see her race.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kind of. Laurie faints upon first seeing the heads, while Annette works herself into a frenzy and ends up tackling Charlie in a fit of paranoia. Still, they get off pretty easy compared to the guys, particularly the father.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Laurie dishes one out to Charlie [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan to get him to stop babbling about the (still unbeknownst to Laurie) severed heads]].

* FauxActionGirl: Laurie is [[InformedAbility talked up by her fiancé as a race-car driver]], but this is never mentioned again. She also does only token badass things such as [[ArmorPiercingSlap slapping people]] and clonking another woman over the head with a vase.

* PantyShot: Laurie very [[StealthPun briefly]] flashes her [[UnusualEuphemism nylon triangle]] while [[EekAMouse leaping upon a pillow in horror at seeing the heads]].

* DeadpanSnarker: Whenever David Spade shows up in a film, you can count on it.

* JustJokingJustification: Charlie tries this on Laurie after frightening her [[AccidentalInnuendo out of the closet]] (where she is hiding from one of the severed heads) by saying, "The bodies are in there!" [[DudeNotFunny Laurie isn't biting.]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Laurie dishes one out to Charlie [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan to get him to stop babbling about the (still unbeknowst to Laurie) severed heads]].

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Annete's mother. She's so unbearable that Tommy ends up throwing her out of a moving car and down a ditch. Annette is very happy.

* WhereDoYouThinkYouAre: On more than one occasion, Charlie has to remind [[TheDitz Laurie]] that many things they take for granted in the U.S. are not the same in Mexico. For example, he explains that in Mexico the police are massively corrupt (which, unfortunately, is TruthInTelevision).

Also features Creator/KristySwanson, Creator/DavidSpade, Dyan Cannon, and George Hamilton.

''Get ready for cut-throat comedy!''

Mob courier Tommy Spinelli (Creator/JoePesci) has been ordered by his superior to bring back eight decapitated victims' heads. At the airport he crosses paths with a young med-school graduate who's about to join his girlfriend and her parents at a hotel in Mexico. When Spinelli reaches his destination, he finds that he and the med student have inadvertently swapped luggage. HilarityEnsues.

Also features Creator/KristySwanson, David Spade, Dyan Cannon, and George Hamilton.

* FauxActionGirl: Laurie is [[InformedAbility talked up by her fiancé as a race-car driver]], but this is never mentioned again. She also does only token {{Badass}} things such as [[ArmorPiercingSlap slapping people]] and clonking another woman over the head with a vase.

-->'''Charlie:''' I don't think [Laurie's] father likes me.
-->'''Tommy:''' I can understand that. I just met you, and I don't like you either.

-->'''Grandma:''' Get your hands off me, you goon! Don't fuck with meeeeeeee!"

Also features Kristy Swanson, David Spade, Dyan Cannon, and George Hamilton.

* ActorAllusion
** The character of Tommy Spinelli is obviously indebted to Creator/JoePesci's many [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] mobster characters. In fact, a gag credit at the end of the film lists "Tommy Devito" (Pesci's character in ''[=GoodFellas=]'') as a bodyguard for Spinelli.
** Also, this is hardly the first time that [[TheChase Kristy Swanson has had a rich idiot father and gone vacationing in Mexico]].

* PlayingAgainstType: The director had previously won an Oscar for writing ''DeadPoetsSociety'' (an inspirational drama).

Mob courier Tommy Spinelli (JoePesci) has been ordered by his superior to bring back eight decapitated victims' heads. At the airport he crosses paths with a young med-school graduate who's about to join his girlfriend and her parents at a hotel in Mexico. When Spinelli reaches his destination, he finds that he and the med student have inadvertently swapped luggage. HilarityEnsues.

** The character of Tommy Spinelli is obviously indebted to JoePesci's many [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] mobster characters. In fact, a gag credit at the end of the film lists "Tommy Devito" (Pesci's character in ''[=GoodFellas=]'') as a bodyguard for Spinelli.

* HairTriggerTemper: Tommy. [[JoePesci Naturally]].

* ILied: When Laurie finds one of the heads, she screams loud enough for the entire hotel staff to hear. Charlie quickly grabs Laurie and muffles her mouth with his hand just as one of the employees opens the door. Charlie reassures him that everything is fine, prompting the employee to leave. Then Charlie tells Laurie that he will let her go if she promises not to scream again. Laurie gives her word - and then, once she is free, immediately resumes screaming!

* HeyItsThatGuy: Movie!Buffy is on vacation in Mexico with her dad George Hamilton? And since when did [[HomeAlone Harry]] join the Mafia?

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: With the exception of Charlie and Laurie (and even they can be pretty annoying), do you care what happens to any of these jerks?

* JustJokingJustification: Charlie tries this on Laurie after frightening her [[AccidentalInnuendo out of the closet]] (where she is hiding from one of the severed heads) by saying, "The bodies are in there!" [[DudeNotFunny Laurie isn't biting.]]