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''Greedy'' is a satirical 1994 comedy film directed by Joanthan Lynn, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and featuring an EnsembleCast.

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''Greedy'' is a satirical 1994 comedy film directed by Joanthan Jonathan Lynn, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and featuring an EnsembleCast.
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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan confined to a wheelchair, who's going to leave his fortune to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Creator/EdBegleyJr), Frank (Creator/PhilHartman), and Glen (Creator/JereBurns); their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Creator/{{Siobhan Fallon|Hogan}}), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser); and their various children.

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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan confined to a wheelchair, who's going to leave his fortune to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Creator/EdBegleyJr), Frank (Creator/PhilHartman), and Glen (Creator/JereBurns); their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), (Creator/MaryEllenTrainor), Tina (Creator/{{Siobhan Fallon|Hogan}}), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser); and their various children.

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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Creator/PhilHartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.

The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged brother Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Creator/OliviaDabo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.

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''Greedy'' is a satirical 1994 comedy film directed by Joanthan Lynn, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and featuring an EnsembleCast.

Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound confined to a wheelchair, who is who's going to give all of leave his fortunes fortune to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), (Creator/EdBegleyJr), Frank (Creator/PhilHartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and (Creator/JereBurns); their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), (Creator/{{Siobhan Fallon|Hogan}}), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), Hyser); and their various children.

The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, money, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's his estranged brother Daniel, Daniel (Francis X. [=McCarthy=]), but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Creator/OliviaDabo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.
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* KarmicJackpot: Invoked. [[spoiler: Joe pretends to be broke, testing to see which of his relatives actually cares about him. When Danny proves he cares about him more than money, Joe rewards Danny big time]].


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* SlummingIt: [[spoiler: Joe pretends to live in a county hospital as part of his "poor person" act]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Frank throws a massive tantrum when he [[spoiler: finds out Uncle Joe is broke and can't claim his inheritance. It is so bad, Joe's lawyer has to call security to have him thrown out]].


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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: When Danny tells a bitter Uncle Joe that his money is gone, Joe pulls out his supposedly confiscated hat, which is followed by the shot of Molly and Douglas happily standing outside Danny's home, revealing Joe was putting on an act]].

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The [=McTeagues=], with the sole exception of Daniel Sr., are all backstabbing assholes who jockey for an old man's money. Even Danny is nearly consumed by greed, although he gets better.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The [=McTeagues=], with the sole exception of Daniel Sr., are all backstabbing assholes who jockey for an old man's money. Frank takes the cake for hitting his son and driving his wife to the bottle. Even Danny is nearly consumed by greed, although he gets better.



* DrowningMySorrows: It is implied [[LadyDrunk Tina]] drinks to cope with being married to someone like [[{{Jerkass}} Frank]].



* FreudianExcuse: Joe's [[BigScrewedUpFamily horrible squabbling cousins]] all try to argue they're the 'victims of this story', convinced the rich old man gradually destroyed their innocence, and made them ''obsessed'' with his millions and trying to one-up each other. As the plot runs its course however, we see the only thing they're victims of, is BelievingTheirOwnLies.

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* FreudianExcuse: Joe's [[BigScrewedUpFamily horrible squabbling cousins]] all try to argue they're the 'victims of this story', convinced the rich old man gradually destroyed their innocence, innocence and made them ''obsessed'' with his millions and trying to one-up each other. As the plot runs its course however, we see the only thing they're victims of, is BelievingTheirOwnLies.
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* CoolOldGuy: When he isn't being manipulate or callous, Uncle Joe can be a pretty genial and awesome dude. Despite being wheelchair bound, [[HandicappedBadass he still manages to successfully wrestle Danny in his pool]]. [[spoiler: Of course, it turns out he wasn't disabled, but still that's a surprising degree of strength for a man over 70]].

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* CoolOldGuy: When he isn't being manipulate manipulative or callous, Uncle Joe can be a pretty genial and awesome dude. Despite being wheelchair bound, [[HandicappedBadass he still manages to successfully wrestle Danny in his pool]]. [[spoiler: Of course, it turns out he wasn't disabled, but still that's a surprising degree of strength for a man over 70]].
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* CoolOldGuy: When he isn't being manipulate or callous, Uncle Joe can be a pretty genial and awesome dude. Despite being wheelchair bound, [[HandicappedBadass he still manages to successfully wrestle Danny in his pool]]. [[spoiler: Of course, it turns out he wasn't disabled, but still that's a surprising degree of strength for a man over 70]].


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* EntitledBastard: Joe's relatives all believe they are entitled to the money ''he'' earned in business.
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* FreudianExcuse: Joe's [[BigScrewedUpFamily horrible squabbling cousins]] all try to argue they're the 'victims of this story', convinced the rich old man gradually destroyed their innocence, and made them ''obsessed'' with his millions and trying to one-up each other. As the plot runs its course however, we see the only thing they're victims of, is BelievingTheirOwnLies.


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* IJustWantToBeLoved: After ParentalAbandonment, Joe focused his life on building an enterprise, eventually becoming a rich CorruptCorporateExecutive. Then one day, he lost the love of his brother Daniel over his [[ItsAllAboutMe greed and apathy towards the poor]]. He had a VillainousBSOD realizing if his closest family member didn't love him, why on Earth would anyone else from the [[GoldDigger asshole McTeague family]] feel any kindness or compassion for him? [[spoiler:He later devises a SecretTestOfCharacter to see who remained really loved him.]]


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* ParentalAbandonment: Joe and Daniel were abandoned by their mother as toddlers and left in a county hospital. As Joe put it, he was "homeless before it was cool". The rest of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily McTeague family]] wanted nothing to do with them - until he [[GoldDigger made his fortune]].
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The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Creator/OliviaDabo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.

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The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin brother Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Creator/OliviaDabo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.
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* GranolaGirl: Daniel Sr. is a male version, being a radical hippie type who fights injustice around the world. His falling out with Uncle Joe was after the old man said unsympathetic things about the oppressed migrant workers.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The [=McTeagues=], with the sole exception of Daniel Sr., are all backstabbing assholes who jockey for an old man's money. Even Danny is nearly consumed by greed, although he gets better.



* HeelRealization: Danny gets one when [[spoiler: his ''real'' father shows up, forcing him to admit to the scam he pulled with the actor]].
* {{Jerkass}}: All the family members, to a certain degree, but Frank takes the cake for [[HateSink being the most abusive, aggressive, and conniving family member]].



* SecretTest: The whole plot is revealed to be one of these. [[spoiler:Joe's supposed advancing dementia and thousands of dollars of debt were all pure fiction, as he wanted to test which of his nieces and nephews actually cared about him and not just his money. When Danny and Robin are the only ones to stand by Joe after he appears to have lost everything, Joe admits the ruse.]]

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* SecretTest: SecretTestOfCharacter: The whole plot is revealed to be one of these. [[spoiler:Joe's supposed advancing dementia and thousands of dollars of debt were all pure fiction, as he wanted to test which of his nieces and nephews actually cared about him and not just his money. When Danny and Robin are the only ones to stand by Joe after he appears to have lost everything, Joe admits the ruse.]]
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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.

The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse ([[Creator/OliviaDabo Olivia d'Abo]]), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.

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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), (Creator/PhilHartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.

The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse ([[Creator/OliviaDabo Olivia d'Abo]]), (Creator/OliviaDabo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.
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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Bob Balaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.

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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Bob Balaban), (Creator/BobBalaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.
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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Colleen Camp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Bob Balaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.

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Multi-millionaire scrap metal tycoon Joe [=McTeague=] (Creator/KirkDouglas) is a GrumpyOldMan bound to a wheelchair, who is going to give all of his fortunes to a member of his family. As he has no children of his own, his prospective heirs include his niece Patti (Colleen Camp) (Creator/ColleenCamp) and nephews Carl (Ed Begley, Jr.), Frank (Phil Hartman), and Glen (Jere Burns), and their respective spouses, Ed (Bob Balaban), Nora (Mary Ellen Trainor), Tina (Siobhan Fallon), and Muriel (Joyce Hyser), and their various children.
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The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Olivia d'Abo), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.

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The greedy, backstabbing, BigScrewedUpFamily members bicker amongst each other as they try to win Joe over into giving one of them his fortunes, but it doesn't work, so they hire a detective to track down Joe's estranged cousin Daniel, but Daniel and Joe don't see eye-to-eye, so then there's Daniel's son Danny (Creator/MichaelJFox), the favorite of Joe and a professional bowler with arthritis in one of his hands. When the other relatives tell Danny about Joe and his personal nurse (Olivia d'Abo), ([[Creator/OliviaDabo Olivia d'Abo]]), whom they believe is a GoldDigger planning to sleep her way into Joe's will, Danny agrees to help them try to talk him out of leaving his fortune to her.
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