Odd Jobs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Mark Story. It was the last film distributed by TriStar Pictures before HBO dropped out of the TriStar venture and sold half of its shares to Columbia Pictures (later sold to Sony).
Plot
College students Max (Paul Reiser) and Dwight (Robert Townsend) form a moving company to pay for tuition. Along the way they cross the mob who runs a rival moving company.
Cast
Paul Reiser as Max
Robert Townsend as Dwight
Scott McGinnis as Woody
Rick Overton as Roy
Paul Provenza as Byron
Leo Burmester as Wylie D. Daiken
Thomas Quinn as Frankie
Savannah Smith Boucher as Loretta & Lynette
Richard Dean Anderson as Spud
Richard Foronjy as Manny
Ken Olfson as Mayor Brady
Charlie Dell as Earl
Starletta DuPois as Dwight's Mother
Don Imus as Monty Leader
Wayne Grace as Roy's Father
Julianne Phillips as Sally
Leon Askin as Don Carlucci
Andra Akers as Mrs. Finelli
Chuck Pfeiffer as The Doris Bodyguard & Dead Meat
Jill Goodacre as Co-Ed
Tom Dugan
Critical reception
The movie received generally poor reviews. The Sun-Sentinel called it "insufferable" and full of "stupid sight gags and pointless jokes."