Directed by: Matthew Robbins
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Elizabeth Pena, Frank McRae
Question: What song is playing during the opening credits?
Question: Would smashing the meters with an axe really cause the power to go out and the water to stop, or is it just plot convenience?
Question: How old was Frank and Faye's son Bobby when he died?
Answer: There is a newspaper article and it says that Bobby died when he was 18.
Continuity mistake: UFO finds the toaster plugged into the bottom power outlet then leaves to get the other UFO. When they return 1 minute later the toaster is plugged into the top outlet. (00:23:25 - 00:24:25)
Faye Riley: Frank! It's the love boat to Cuba! Shuffle board and pineapples filled with rum. Know what they do? They put little paper umbrellas sticking out the top so that when it rains, it don't thin out the liquor.
Trivia: At the end of the movie, we see the large buildings built around the cafe. At the part where Carlos is looking at the building models, if you look closely, you can see a tiny model of the cafe built between the big buildings just as it is at the end.
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Answer: It's been years since I watched this one, but here's an engineer's opinion. Yes on the electrical meters, no on the water. If you strike an electrical meter with sufficient force to dislodge it from the main electrical service contacts, the flow of electricity will stop. Striking a water meter with an axe might destroy the metering mechanism and cause a leak, but water will still flow. Only severing the metal water service pipes would stop the water, but that would also cause a major flood.