Written by Mr. Mouseburger 29th Apr 2006

Kindly submitted by The Doctor

Jack Berger is a mayoral candidate who has ties to businessman Maxwell Potterdam III. Jack is looking the other way while Potterdam dumps toxic waste into the river in exchange for cash. At the start of the movie, Jack has learned that the canisters, which he was told would be leak proof for 150 years, are leaking waste into the river. He tells Potterdam that he is getting cold feet, but Potterdam reassures him that in two days, they will take the operation up north and out of his jurisdiction. When Jack brings up the canister issue, Potterdam tells him "I have an obligation to produce paint thinner. You have an obligation to provide a place for me to dispose of the waste products."

Jack rather stupidly tells Potterdam that he is not afraid of him anymore, and that he has no qualms about exposing the whole operation. Potterdam attempts to grease the wheels a little by trying a bribe, but Jack refuses. Potterdam does not believe a word of it, knowing that it would cost him his election chances. However, Jack has recorded the whole conversation to tape, with the intention of sending it to the police. When he calls ahead about the tape, the police officer he is on the line with is also on Potterdam's payroll. In response to this treachery, Potterdam sends two thugs to kill Jack and get the tape.

Unfortunately for the thugs though, Jack has paid a visit to his campaign manager, Susan, to hear the song she picked out for the campaign. Inevitably, the tapes, which look the same, get switched and Jack winds up with the song tape. He plays it at the police station, and is furious when he discovers that he has the wrong tape and has to head over to Susan's place to get the tape she has, which has Potterdam's unintentional confession on it.

He winds up starting a shouting match with Susan that is so loud it disrupts the game of Trivial Pursuit that her neighbours in the next building, Carl Taylor and James St. James, are playing. Carl, having taken a liking to her when he spied on her early in the morning, gets out a pellet gun, intending to settle the dispute as he thinks they are lovers fighting.

When Susan goes to her car to get the tape, Jack has his back turned towards the window. Carl gets a shot in, nailing Jack in the ass and causing him to fall to the floor in pain. When the two duck behind the window laughing, they do not see the two goons Potterdam hired walk in.

Neighbours like this are a real pain in the arse....
One thug, Biff, turns up the radio to cover the noise, while Mario, the other thug, strangles Jack. The opera piece on the radio works just fine, as no one hears Jack crying out.


When Jack is dead, Biff and Mario search him and find the (wrong) tape. They then drag Jack out of the apartment and seal him into a yellow toxic waste drum. Using cables to keep it from coming out of their car trunk, they drive off. The main part of the film begins when, while the two goons are fighting over the radio, the car hits a big bump, one of the cables breaks and the drum holding Jack rolls off next to a couple of garbage cans that happen to be on Carl and James' route...


I don't think the director understood when the producer asked for a drumroll