Taking Care of Business (released theatrically in the United Kingdom as Filofax) is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin.
The film follows a work-obsessed businessman who loses his Filofax, which is found by a recent prison escapee, who assumes his identity, moves into his home and proceeds to mess up his business dealings.
Losing all his clothes, his car and money, he has to rely on an old high school flame, the neurotic and talkative Debbie Lipton (Anne De Salvo) who keeps trying to rekindle a relationship with him.
The film is notable for featuring John de Lancie and Gates McFadden together in scenes who were also in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television show at the time.
"[5] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote, "This is a pretty stupid comedy in spots, with holes wide enough to drive trucks through, and director Arthur Hiller is as clunky as ever, but the cast is so funny and likable that they almost bring it off in spite of itself.
It's like a stand-up comic who invested his sense of humor in the Sunbelt Jokes Savings and Loan: It hasn't got a million of them," and, "There's something eerie about this movie: a kind of mix-and-match Trading Places, a cross-town Midnight Run with an Odd Couple who never meet.