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Taking Care of Business
1990 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Arthur Hiller
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
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You can rent movies online though. Steaming catalogs are a moving target but online rental catalogs usually have most stuff available. You also don’t need to drive down to the store and risk getting a scratched up disk that skips over a key scene when renting online.
To go back to the OP’s example, Prime has Taking Care of Business available for rental for about $5: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp/B004JRWKH6
I remember visiting the UK in 2000, and there was a movie on TV that looked familiar, called Filofax. Me and my friends eventually recalled it was the movie called Taking Care of Business in N. America.
Interestingly, looking it up just now on Wikipedia it appears to be the first screenplay JJ Abrams wrote.
looks like its on Disney+ Canada, but agreed that is extremely limited given the age of the film:
https://disneyplus.com/movies/taking-care-of-business/1cZIoq2zTWOq
It's not even doing a good job of that, though. The other day someone mentioned the 1990 movie "Taking Care of Business" with Jim Belushi and Charles Grodin. It's a pretty unremarkable movie, but I remembered liking it as a kid for whatever reason and wanted to see it again.
Of course, it's not on any of the four streaming services I pay for (I'm outside the US so ymmv). And why? Why is the studio hoarding access to this film that probably stopped making them money decades ago when they could just lease out the streaming rights and make something of it?
I would kind of love it if there were a modern day TNT / TBS / USA that had all the movies you half-remembered from long ago, but Hollywood can't get their heads out of their asses long enough in the scramble for each individual property to have its own streaming service to pick up literal free money that is just sitting there.
I do the same. I make sure to use FaceID, though.
I also almost never use apps like dedicated banking apps or social media apps; instead, using Safari.
I know folks that don’t lock, and don’t use Face/Touch ID, because convenience (or paranoia).
I’m not sure that’s a good idea. We have our whole lives in these devices, and they could do a lot of damage.
There’s an old movie, called Taking Care of Business[0], where Jim Belushi finds Charles Grodin’s date planner, and takes over his life.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Care_of_Business_(film)