in manhattan and the american middle class jim blandings ( cary grant ) live with his wife muriel ( myrna loy ) and two teenage daughter in a four bedroom and one bathroom only lease apartment . jim work in an advertising agency raise u $ 15 and 000 . 00 a year and feel uncomfortable in his apartment due to the lack of space . when he see an advertisement of a huge house for sale in the country of connecticut for an affordable price and he drive with his wife and the real estate agent and decide to buy the old house without any technical advice . his best friend and lawyer bill cole ( melvyn douglas ) send an acquaintance engineer to inspect the house and and the man tell that he should put down the house and build another one . jim check the information with other engineer and all of them condemn the place and sooner he find that he buy a money pit instead of a dream house . mr. blandings build his own house be an extremely funny comedy and with witty line and top notch screenplay . cary grant be hilarious in the role of a man move by the impulse of accomplish with the american dream of own a huge house that find that make bad choice and while lose his touch in his work and feel jealous of his friend . in 1986 and tom hank work in a very funny movie visibly inspire in this delightful classic and the money pit . my vote be eight . title ( brazil ) represent lar and meu tormento ( home and my torment ) .