Things Are Tough All Over

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Things Are Tough All Over
Theatrical release poster.
Directed by	Thomas K. Avildsen
Produced by	Howard Brown
Written by	Tommy Chong Cheech Marin
Starring	Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Evelyn Guerrero Rip Taylor George Wallace
Music by	Gaye Delorme
Cinematography	Bobby Byrne
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 6, 1982
Running time	90 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Preceded by	Nice Dreams
Followed by	Still Smokin'
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Things are Tough All Over (1982) is the fourth Cheech and Chong movie. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are featured as the two hippies, and additionally as Arab businessmen Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. The film grossed $21,134,374 at the box office, and is available on DVD, with widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film on the same disc.

[edit] Plot outline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Cheech and Chong are a pair of struggling musicians working at a car wash owned by a pair of Arabs (also played by Cheech and Chong). The Arabs find themselves with a large sum of money, which they stash in the seats of a limousine. They hire the stoners to drive the limousine to Las Vegas, but along the way, Cheech and Chong find themselves strapped for cash, so they start selling pieces of the car. When the Arabs find out that Cheech and Chong have delivered what remains of the car without any money in it, they go after the duo to try and kill them, and find them inside a porno theater showing a "hidden camera" film of the stoners having sex with the Arabs' French girlfriends. Instead of killing them, the Arabs decide to cast the duo in porn films and launder the money through the enterprise.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

Comedians Dave Coulier and Ruby Wax have brief appearances in the restaurant scene.
The Arabs' French girlfriends are played by Rikki Marin and Shelby Chong.