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3'''Nea Mărin Miliardar''' (Uncle Marin the Billionaire) is 1979 Romanian comedy film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. The movie is about the main character, Mărin Juvete who visits his nephew, Gogu which works at a hotel on Black sea resort. Meanwhile the daughter of the millionaire Mr Juvett is kidnapped by gangster who want to ask for a ransom of a million dollars.The Gangsters go to the hotel were Juvett was supposed to stay which just so happens to be the same hotel Mărin is staying in. Meanwhile a rival gang come to take the ransom for themselves and since Juvett and Mărin look identical they follow Mărin instead. Mărin also carries a briefcase similar to the one containing the ransom that Juvett is carrying and they even switch them around by accident a few times. HilarityEnsues.
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5!! Nea Mărin Miliardar contains examples of:
6* ActionGirl: Samantha, Juvett's daughter is shown to be a badass.
7* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: Juvett's briefcase.
8* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Juvett has one which looks identical to Mărin's
9* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:After Mărin and his wife Veta are captured by the mobster, Gogu goes to Băilești to get the villagers in order to save them. However when they arrived they solved the problem on their own]]
10* ChaseScene: Quite a lot of them.
11* ClingyJealousGirl: According to Mărin, Veta thinks [[MistakenForCheating Mărin is cheating on her]] whenever she spots him with another woman. The climax shows he's not kidding: when she meets [[IdenticalStranger Juvett]] and Samantha, Veta mistakes the former for Mărin and starts beating him up for being with a random girl, with Mărin himself {{Corpsing}} at the scene (though it's implied Mărin explained the situation to Veta once Juvett and Samantha fled the scene).
12* DrinkingContest: [[spoiler:Mărin defeats the mobsters by drinking them under the table]]
13* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mărin was shown to drive like this in the Car chase scene.
14* IdenticalStranger: Mărin and Juvett look identical to one another.
15* IKnowKarate: The Mobsters were trained in martial arts. However even with their training they couldn't beat up Mărin.
16* TheMafia: The Bad guys of the film are 2 rival mafia gangs.
17* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: After the mobsters fail to beat Mărin he said "oh boy". "Boy" sounds like Romanian "Boi" which means "Oxen" so Mărin replied with "What Oxen? They're just a bunch of cows!"
18* MockGuffin: Mărin's briefcase.
19* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mărin loves leek and cheese which he caries in his briefcase
20* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: At the beginning of the film after Samantha is captured, The mobsters kill the kidnappers.

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