Modern Problems

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Modern Problems

Directed by	Ken Shapiro
Produced by	Alan Greisman Michael Shamberg
Written by	Ken Shapiro Tom Sherohman
Starring	Chevy Chase Patti D'Arbanville Dabney Coleman
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s)	December 25, 1981
Running time	89 mins.
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
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Modern Problems is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Ken Shapiro and starring Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville and Dabney Coleman. The film grossed $26,154,211 in the United States. A DVD release of the film was issued in 2005.

Max Fidlder (Chevy Chase) is an air traffic controller whose life is slowly going down the drain.His girlfriend has just left him because he's becomes jealous of any man she is with, and then everywhere he goes he can't help but run into her with another man, driving him mad. Until one night why'll driving a truck spilling nuclear waste all over the place is driving in front of him, and due to a broken sun roof handle his sun roof is wide open. The next day he notices that he is developing telekonetic powers. Now whenever Max becomes jealous he pulls some sort of stunt to stop the good evening of his ex-girlfriend and her new "friend". Until finally he sees himself becoming a monster.

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Chase narrowly escaped electrocution during the filming of Modern Problems in 1980. During a sequence in which Chase's character wears 'landing lights' as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited and arced through Chase's arm, back, and neck muscles.

Contains Dabney Coleman's only on-screen nude scene.