Plot

After work, the pair spies on a woman living across the street with a telescope; they discover that she is being mistreated by a man who is with her. Determined to right the wrong, Carl shoots the man in the rear with a pellet gun. He and James both hide and laugh. Shortly afterwards, the man - a local politician named Jack Berger - is strangled and ends up found the next day by Carl and James in a yellow can. They decide that turning in the body would implicate themselves, as they had shot him earlier.

Carl and James ask the advice of crazed Vietnam War vet Louis Fedders (Keith David), who helps them to stash the body. Carl goes over to meet Susan Wilkins (Leslie Hope), the woman who they saw with Berger the night before. Louis ends up exacerbating the situation when he kidnaps a pizza delivery man who sees him with the body.

James, Louis, and the pizza man end up leaving the apartment to follow Carl and Susan, but they are pulled over by the cops from earlier in the movie. Louis, however, uses the pellet gun to get them out of trouble. Meanwhile, Carl and Susan are discovered by the hitmen who had killed Berger. The couple are eventually stuffed into cans and set to be disposed of in a lake that serves as an illegal toxic dump for a local businessman, Maxwell Potterdam III, who was also the man who had Berger killed.

Carl and Susan manage to escape from the cans and reunite with the others. The group fights the toxic dump workers and brings down Potterdam.

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Soundtrack

#"Wear You to the Ball" - UB40 #"Super Cool" - Sly & Robbie #"Big Pink House" - Tyrants in Therapy #"Feeling Good" - Pressure Drop #"Back to Back" - Blood Brothers #"Take Heed" - Black Uhuru #"Here and Beyond" - Sly & Robbie #"Truthful" - Blood Brothers #"Reggae Ambassador" - Third World #"Give a Little Love" - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers #"Playas Dawn" - Stewart Copeland #"Pink Panther No. 23" - Stewart Copeland

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Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.

Early life and Men at Work

In 1978, Hay met Ron Strykert and the men began playing acoustic music as a duo. Hay and Strykert formed the band Men at Work, adding Jerry Speiser (drums), John Rees (bassist) and Greg Ham (flautist/saxophonist). The group released their debut album ''Business as Usual'' in 1981.

Hay joined as guest vocalist with The Incredible Penguins in 1985, for a cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", a charity project for research on Fairy penguins, which peaked at #10 on the Australian Kent Music Report in December.

Later career

In addition to recording, Hay also established his own recording label, Lazy Eye Records, named for his own strabismus (lazy eye) condition, and has made appearances in cult movies such as ''Cosi'' and television shows, such as ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''JAG'', and ''The Mick Molloy Show''. Hay also appeared on television in the NBC show ''Scrubs'', which along with episodes of ABC's ''What About Brian'', NBC's ''The Black Donnellys'', CBS's ''Cane'', and the BBC hospital drama ''Casualty'', have included performances of some of his previous songs.

In December 2005, Hay and Heather Mills digitally re-released "My Brilliant Feat" as a charity single as a tribute to the late football (soccer) player George Best, who died on 25 November of that year. Proceeds were forwarded to the Donor Family Network, supporting organ donor families and promoting organ and tissue donation. The single is available on iTunes with a bonus music video tribute to Best.

In 2006 he provided his voice for one of the characters in animated movie ''The Wild''. Hay has also been a member of Ringo Starr's eighth and tenth All-Starr Bands. He continues to perform regularly, including playing some folk venues.

On 13 February 2009, former Men at Work band member, Ron Strykert, was arrested for allegedly making death threats against Hay.

Hay contributed music to the TV series ''Scrubs'' in the course of a number of episodes, including on-camera performances. In episode 1 of season 2 he performs an acoustic version of the Men at Work-hit "Overkill", and he also makes appearances in "My Hard Labor"

Hay released his 10th album, "American Sunshine", on 18 August 2009 by Compass Records.

In 2009, Colin Hay's former group, Men at Work, were named in a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by Larrikin Music, who owns the rights to the Kookaburra song. Larrikin Music claims that part of a flute riff from the band's 1981 single "Down Under" was copied from "Kookaburra" originally written by music teacher, Marion Sinclair, who died in 1988. In February 2010, a court ruled in favor of Larrikin Music. Although the petition from Larrikin Music requested 40 to 60% of royalties dating back to 1981 and future royalties, in July 2010 a judge awarded the plaintiff only 5% of royalties dating back to 2002 and the same amount of future royalties.

In May 2009, Colin Hay performed at the Artist for the Arts Foundation benefit at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA. Performing live, along side Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) Fee Waybill (Tubes) & Venice and over 70 members of the Santa Monica High School (SaMoHi) Orchestra and Girls Choir,the benefit helped to provide funds for the continuation of Music Education in public schools. The event was filmed and recorded by Harry Rabin of On the WAVE Productions and can be seen on the AFTA Foundation website. In August 2010, Hay performed in Missoula, Montana with a Los Angeles Roots rock band named Patrolled By Radar.

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