The Money Pit (1986) (2024)

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How much money did Walter and Anna pay for the house? ›

2. If the house seems underpriced, there's a reason why. The home that Walter and Anna buy is a million-dollar property that's been priced to move at $200,000. This is a bargain for a mansion just an hour outside New York City (while New York has some lovely affordable cities, they are all quite far away from NYC).

Anna tears up as she reveals she never slept with Max. They fall into each other's arms and kiss. Anna and Walter throw a wedding in their new home and Max conducts a full orchestra as part of the entertainment.

The most exciting items dug up from the pit include several coins, some dating to the 16th century; some gold links; and, in a find that has been confounding treasure-hunters and researchers alike for two centuries, a stone bearing indecipherable inscriptions.

The house is located at: 199 Feeks Lane, Locust Valley, New York and was owned by the Ridder family at the time of the filming.

This Nassau County home — which played the role of a falling-apart Gilded Age property that Walter (Tom Hanks) and Anna (Shelley Long) buy for a suspicious bargain — has sold for $3.5 million after five years on the market. That's 76 percent less than its original 2014 asking price of $12.5 million.

The restoration process lasted well over a year, including an upgrade of the mansion's plumbing and the installation of a new roof made of cedar, but the couple were confident of turning a profit. “It will be the anti-money pit,” real estate agent Shawn Elliot told the website Zillow in 2014.

Although he does not care for it, he agrees to its purchase. He wines and dines her, and the next morning, when she wakes up in his bed, he allows her to believe that she has cheated on Walter; in reality, Max slept on the couch.

“The interiors of the house were filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens (geographically still Long Island).” “We also shot a brief night scene for The Money Pit at a small LIRR station near the house location.”

The owner, Estelle (Maureen Stapleton), shows them the property, and explains that Israeli Intelligence arrested her longtime husband, Carlos, for being Hitler's "pool man." If Estelle can sell the property and the furnishings, she might raise enough money to pay the lawyers.

Granite Stone. Found 90 feet down the Money Pit was a granite stone. One carved with peculiar symbols. No-one has accurately deciphered the code though one attempt gives the translation 'Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried'.

Who was Benny in the Money Pit? ›

The Money Pit (1986) - William Lombardo as Benny - IMDb.

In early 1986, White Lion, with a fictitious female member (portrayed by Louise Robey), had a brief part in the Tom Hanks/Shelley Long movie The Money Pit. Early in 1987, the band was signed by Atlantic Records.

That year, Robert Dunfield leased portions of the island. Dunfield dug the pit area to a depth of 134 feet (41 m) and a width of 100 feet (30 m) by using a 70-ton digging crane with a clam bucket.

The story begins with Walter and Anna being evicted from their apartment--the apartment actually belongs to Anna's ex-husband, who has returned unexpectedly early from a tour abroad.

The backstory: This 14,000-square-foot Colonial, located just outside New York City in the Long Island village of Lattingtown, was used for only the exterior shots—but that doesn't mean the actual house was in good shape.

Feil and Alicia Feil Peterson of Coldwell Banker Legacy list another house that appeared in the series finale in Albuquerque's North Valley for $2.65 million. That home is where the show's main character, Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, threatened his former business partner with two fake assassins.

Even at his lowest, Walt still had plenty of money. In the period when he was in hiding, Walt spent some money on supplies, but when he returned to Albuquerque he left $9 million in the hands of Gretchen to give to his family.

Type. U-Store-It is a self-storage facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of its units was rented by Skyler White to store the ~$80 million fortune earned by her husband, Walter, from manufacturing and selling methamphetamine.

In the last episodes of Breaking Bad, Walter's fortune of 80 million dollars is split among 8 barrels of money. He buries it out in the desert to ensure that it can't be used as evidence against him by the police.