My Chauffeur

My Chauffeur
My Chauffeur DVD cover
Directed by	David Beaird
Produced by	Marilyn Jacobs Tenser
Written by	David Beaird
Starring	Deborah Foreman E. G. Marshall Howard Hesseman Penn & Teller Julius Harris Sam J. Jones
Music by	Paul Hertzog
Cinematography	Harry Mathias
Editing by	Richard E. Westover
Distributed by	Crown International Pictures Rhino Home Video
Release date(s)	January 24, 1986
Running time	97 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3,883,652 (USA) (sub-total)

My Chauffeur is an American comedy film starring E. G. Marshall, Deborah Foreman, and Howard Hesseman. It was written and directed by David Beaird. The original music score was composed by Paul Hertzog. The film was released on January 24, 1986, and was marketed with the tagline "Some women will, some won't... some men do, some don't. This driver might go everywhere, do anything... for your sizzling backseat pleasure."

Trivia: This movie was filmed at the Ramsey-Durfee estate (Villa Maria) in Los Angeles in 1985. The estate is currently owned and conserved by the Brothers of Saint John of God.

Plot

Casey Meadows is a free-spirited young woman working as a dishwasher in an upscale restaurant when one day she receives a hand-delivered job offer as a driver for Brentwood Limousine Service. The company manager, McBride is appalled at Casey's young, brash presence... and the fact that she's a woman in an all-male establishment. McBride soon learns that Mr. Witherspoon, the company owner, personally handpicked her and offered the letter of employment. McBride reluctantly agrees to hire her, but warns her that she will be fired if she steps out of line.

Casey experiences sexism and chauvinism from her fellow, (mostly older) limo drivers. While frustrated at her lack of acceptance and tolerance amongst her new co-workers, she does manage to find some kindness and support in Jeremy O'Brien, an older Irish driver. Jeremy convinces her to tough it out and give the change-hating men time to adjust to her presence. She agrees to stay.

Casey is routinely given bad assignments that are engineered to get her fired. Her first job is driving a high, oversexed and hung-over British punk rock singer named "Cat Fight" (Leland Crooke) to his concert. Casey finds Cat Fight in a motel bed with three nude women in a drug-induced stupor. Realizing she'll be fired if she doesn't deliver him to the concert, she takes a cooler full of ice water and dumps it on Cat Fight's bed. Casey manages to get Cat Fight and the three women (his backup dancers) into the car. Despite many shenannigans, including Cat Fight stealing the panties from a senior citizen, Casey manages to bring him into the arena just in time for the concert. Then he barely makes it onto the stage with the girls in time. The following day, McBride learns of the incident involving the senior citizen and prepares to fire her. However, Cat Fight's manager comes in and personally thanks both McBride and Casey for delivering Cat to the concert on-time... a first for him. The act manages to temporarily prevent her firing.

Casey is assigned to transport Battle Witherspoon, an arrogant, heartless, workaholic executive who is stalking his ex-girlfriend. The angry ex tells him she can no longer stand to be with him and says she is pregnant with another man's child. Casey, sympathetic, offers visibily devastated Battle some liquor from the onboard bar. After consuming an excessive amount, Battle runs out of the car and strips his clothes off, running through a park, making a huge nuisance of himself. He finally returns to the limo and passes out. Not knowing where Battle's residence is, Casey takes him to her home so he can recover from the day's events. The following morning, he awakens and is back to his old hateful self, hurtfully insulting Casey before leaving.

Unbeknownst to Casey, Battle Witherspoon is actually the son of the Mr. Witherspoon, the owner of the limo company. Mr. Witherspoon orders Battle to check out another of his companies upstate in Sonoma. Casey is assigned to drive Battle up north, much to their mutual displeasure. Halfway through the trip, the car overheats and breaks down in a remote location on the highway. Battle and Casey walk off in search of a phone. After walking and bickering for several hours, night falls and they get caught in a rainstorm. Casey sprains her ankle and is unable to walk. Battle continues his walk while carrying Casey in his arms. They finally find a rustic cabin occupied by a hillbilly couple, who invite them to spend the night. Both are put in a bedroom with a single bed and after another one of their arguments, Battle kisses her. Both finally acknowledge their mutual passionate attaction and make love. The following morning, Battle proposes marriage but Casey refuses, fearing he will return to his emotionally-distant ways.

Much later, Casey is next assigned to transport a Middle Eastern sheik to a meeting. The shiek (Teller) is approached by a con artist [Penn Jillette] out for a wild night on the town complete with an orgy with prostitutes. After Casey returns, she is fired by McBride after learning that police and government agents have been searching for the missing sheik the whole time he was out on the town and learning of the details of the orgy.

Realizing that he's fallen for Casey, Battle starts making some positive changes in his life and continues his efforts to court Casey. He slowly wins Casey over and takes her home to meet his father. When she arrives at the estate, she experiences Deja Vu, recalling the times she played in the Witherspoon mansion as a child. It turns out that Casey's mother was formerly in Witherspoon's employ. But shockingly, Witherspoon reveals that he is Casey's biological father, making Battle and Casey siblings. Just then, Jeremy comes into the room with Giles, another limo driver, ordering Giles to confess what he knows about Casey's paternity. He reveals Witherspoon is not Casey's biological father, Giles is. Giles was in a relationship with Casey's mother before she and Witherspoon spent their "little weekend together". Giles (who was especially hostile to Casey) reveals that he denied paternity in order that Casey would receive stable financial support as an heiress to the Witherspoon fortune. Casey makes amends with Giles

The movie ends with Battle and Casey's wedding. As they climb into the back of a Brentwood Limousine. The driver is McBride, who has finally received his comeuppance for his mysogynic treatment of Casey.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Deborah Foreman	Casey Meadows
Sam J. Jones	Battle Witherspoon
Sean McClory	Jeremy O'Brien
Howard Hesseman	McBride
E. G. Marshall	Mr. Witherspoon
Penn Jillette	Bone
Teller	Abdul
Julius Harris	Johnson
Laurie Main	Jenkins
John O'Leary	Giles
Stanley Brock	Downs
Jack Stryker	Moses
Vance Colvig	Doolittle (as Vance Colvig Jr.)
Ben Slack	Dupont
Elaine Wilkes	Colleen
Diana Bellamy	Blue Lady
Leland Crooke	Catfight
Robin Antin	Bimbo
Cindy Beal	Beebop
Sue Jackson	Boom Boom
Darian Mathias	Dolly
Mark Holton	Doughboy
Carlton Miller	Amy
Stan Foster	LaRue

See also

• List of American films of 1986

External links

• My Chauffeur at the Internet Movie Database
• My Chauffeur at AllRovi
• My Chauffeur at Rotten Tomatoes