Mr. Destiny

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Mr. Destiny

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Directed by James Orr
Produced by Laurence Mark
Jim Cruickshank
James Orr
Susan B. Landau
Written by James Orr
Jim Cruickshank
Starring James Belushi
Linda Hamilton
Jon Lovitz
Hart Bochner
and
Michael Caine
Music by David Newman
Cinematography Alex Thomson
Editing by Michael R. Miller
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) October 12, 1990
Running time 110 min.
Country USA
Language English
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Mr. Destiny is a 1990 comedy film starring Jim Belushi. Other actors in this film included Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Michael Caine, Courteney Cox, and Rene Russo.

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  • Would you give up everything you had...for everything you've ever wanted?

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The story begins on "the strangest day" of Larry Burrow's (Belushi) life consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures. Larry, who blames all of his life's problems on the fact that he struck out during a key moment of a high school baseball game, wishes he had done things differently. His wish is granted by a guardian angel-like figure named Mike (Caine), and appears at various times as a bartender, a cab driver, and so on. Larry soon discovers that Mike has transferred Larry into an alternate reality in which he had won the pivotal high school game. He now finds himself rich and (within his company) powerful, and married to the boss's (McCutcheon) sexy daughter (Russo). At first, his new life seems perfect, but he soon begins to miss his best friend (Lovitz) and wife (Hamilton) from his previous life; he also discovers that his alternate self has created many enemies, and as Larry's problems multiply, he finds himself wishing to be put back into his old life.

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