Memoryholed Film - asking to speak to "The Manager"

February 20, 2024 6:45 PM

In this movie, which may have been a made-for-tv movie, a character is at a place of lodging in the tropics (aloha shirts and the like) and asks to speak to the manager, to which the clerk at the counter pulls out a shotgun that has "The Manager" elaborately carved into the buttstock and sticks it into the character's face. Any ideas on the movie in question?

Hello,

I have searched fruitlessly for more details of a film I saw part of on TV, probably in the middle or late 1990s, ca. 1996.
In this movie, which may have been a made-for-tv movie, a character is at a place of lodging in the tropics (aloha shirts and the like) and asks to speak to the manager, to which the clerk at the counter pulls out a shotgun that has "The Manager" elaborately carved into the buttstock and sticks it into the character's face.
Any ideas on the movie in question?

posted by ujlutlihp to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

From TV Tropes page on named weapons: 1988's The Blue Iguana has a hotel owner who named his gun "The Management" so he can say "If you don't like it, talk to the management!" while threatening dissatisfied customers.
posted by slightlybewildered at 7:24 PM on February 20 [5 favorites]

^clip, at 1:55 (can't make it paste)
posted by Iris Gambol at 8:00 PM on February 20 [4 favorites]

the whole clip is worth watching, (thanks Iris Gambol), but if you want to just see the shotgun it's here.
posted by adekllny at 6:01 AM on February 21

Response by poster: OMG, that's amazing! Thanks so much y'all - I have a note in my email from at least 17 years ago as a question I should ask metafilter, so I've been wondering about this for a while.
And I think my memory of the scene holds up pretty well from 30 years ago!
posted by ujlutlihp at 2:40 PM on February 22

Response by poster: And in fact the TV Tropes page has it wrong - it is indeed "THE MANAGER" and not "THE MANAGEMENT."
posted by ujlutlihp at 2:45 PM on February 22