Mixed Nuts (1994) on Netflix
On Christmas Eve in Venice, Los Angeles, Philip runs Lifesavers, a suicide hotline staffed by Mrs. Munchnik and Catherine. A serial strangler is loose, and their landlord plans to evict them.
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Plot summary
On Christmas Eve, Philip runs Lifesavers, a suicide-prevention hotline in Venice, Los Angeles. Mrs. Munchnik, a judgmental widow, and Catherine, who has a crush on Philip, share the shift. Gracie, pregnant and angry, chases her boyfriend Felix, an ex-con, along the road; he collides with a Christmas tree that two rollerbladers are carrying, and Philip takes the damaged tree to the office. Philip's landlord, Stanley, intends to convert the building into condominiums. He hides the eviction notice from his coworkers and asks his fiancée Susan, a loan officer, for money to keep the hotline open; she refuses and breaks up with him. Calls come in from a woman frightened of the Seaside Strangler and from Chris, a depressed transgender woman who asks to visit the office herself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mixed Nuts (1994)
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- The film was initially titled The Night Before Christmas in development at Walt Disney Pictures, but went into turnaround and ended up at TriStar. Though set in Los Angeles, an impending stagehands' strike sent the filmmakers to interior locations in New York City, where a snowstorm disrupted the cast and crew's travel.
- Mixed Nuts is an American Christmas black comedy based on the 1982 French comedy film Le Père Noël est une ordure, known in English as Santa Claus is a Stinker.
- The film was co-written by Ephron and her sister Delia, and its ensemble cast gave Liev Schreiber his film debut.
- The film opened on December 21, 1994 and made $2,307,850 in its first weekend, ranking number 12 in the domestic box office; by the end of its run it had grossed $6,821,850.
