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Movie Madness

  • 1982
  • R
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
3.2/10
1.4K
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Movie Madness (1982)
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
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An anthology parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.An anthology parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.An anthology parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

  • Directors
    • Bob Giraldi
    • Henry Jaglom
  • Writers
    • Tod Carroll
    • Shary Flenniken
    • Pat Mephitis
  • Stars
    • Peter Riegert
    • Diane Lane
    • Candy Clark
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.2/10
    1.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Bob Giraldi
      • Henry Jaglom
    • Writers
      • Tod Carroll
      • Shary Flenniken
      • Pat Mephitis
    • Stars
      • Peter Riegert
      • Diane Lane
      • Candy Clark
    • 40User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Peter Riegert
    Peter Riegert
    • Jason Cooper ("Growing Yourself")
    Diane Lane
    Diane Lane
    • Liza ("Growing Yourself")
    Candy Clark
    Candy Clark
    • Susan Cooper ("Growing Yourself")
    Teresa Ganzel
    Teresa Ganzel
    • Diana ("Growing Yourself")
    Schnootie Neff
    • Jennifer Cooper - 'Growing Yourself'
    Andy Shakman
    • Josh Cooper - 'Growing Yourself'
    Tamar Howard
    Tamar Howard
    • Judy Cooper - 'Growing Yourself'
    Ian Fried
    • Jeffrey Cooper - 'Growing Yourself'
    Barry Michlin
    • Fireman - 'Growing Yourself'
    Trinidad Silva
    Trinidad Silva
    • Carlos - 'Growing Yourself'
    John Lawlor
    John Lawlor
    • Mr. Haggis - 'Growing Yourself'
    Susan Krebs
    Susan Krebs
    • Lady Who Beats Her Plants - 'Growing Yourself'
    Nedra Volz
    Nedra Volz
    • Old Lady - 'Growing Yourself'
    Stanley Lawrence
    • Sanitation Man - 'Growing Yourself'
    • (as Stan Lawrence)
    Ann Dusenberry
    Ann Dusenberry
    • Dominique Corsaire ("Success Wanters")
    Robert Culp
    Robert Culp
    • Paul Everest ("Success Wanters")
    Titos Vandis
    Titos Vandis
    • Nixos Naxos ("Success Wanters")
    Bobby Di Cicco
    Bobby Di Cicco
    • Nicholas Naxos ("Success Wanters")
    • Directors
      • Bob Giraldi
      • Henry Jaglom
    • Writers
      • Tod Carroll
      • Shary Flenniken
      • Pat Mephitis
    • All cast & crew
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    113Funbags

    Highly disturbing

    Nothing about this movie is funny and it makes no sense. The only reason to watch this is to see the girl from the Tonight Show get topless.
    vacousin

    Dreadful

    Dreadful! This is the kind of movie you wonder how the cameras ever started rolling. Aside from anyone getting a paycheck, you can't imagine why it was ever completed. It must have been in the can for months while they figured what to do. No point in ever watching except for seeing again that a great cast can do nothing with a terrible, terrible script. You wouldn't laugh on a dare watching this. I agree with the previous contributor who stated his is much worse than "Plan 9." The fact is big Hollywood films like this that don't try are much worse than the small no dollar indies that are making an effort. This is why even an Ed Wood is better than trash like this film or say "Endless Love." Perhaps the unfunniest comedy ever made. As Widmark says at one point, "Kid, you can really be boring."
    bob the moo

    Even by the low, low standards of the National Lampoon stable – this is rubbish.

    A spoof on the movies, that looks at a growing movie, a revenge type movie and a buddy cop movie. Usually I open a review with a plot summary – with this film it would be pointless to try and summarise the plot in a meaningful way….the writers certainly couldn't do it!

    Instead of a plot or a story we have three sketches that are only notable for how unfunny they manage to be. None of them manage to get beyond their original lazy setup, often they aren't even jokes – instead we are just given the situation and expected to find it funny. I never laughed once – not even a smile…..and I was in the mood for a silly spoof! The titles reveal what to expect – a childish, crude, rude and stupid focus.

    The cast contains some `names' – Robert Culp, Christopher Lloyd, Rhea Perlman, Richard Widmark and a few others, but none do well. All of hamstrung by rubbish dialogue. It's almost sad to think that they made this film, thinking audiences would be roaring with laughter!

    Overall this is absolute trash, it didn't get a cinema release and to me is the definition of pointless. Even by the low, low standards of the National Lampoon stable – this is rubbish.
    1world_of_weird

    Deservedly an unknown movie

    National Lampoon was once a funny magazine. Whether you liked the stoner hippie days of the late sixties or the smug and sassy coke-head days of the seventies (when the comedy was fortified with plenty of naked babes) depends very much on your date of birth, but everyone agrees that by the early eighties, middle age had killed off whichever remaining sparks of anarchic humour that the drugs hadn't, and offerings like this film and the increasingly terrible spin-off records shot further holes in the hull. Outside of a nicely illustrated title sequence, there's absolutely nothing to recommend this singularly depressing stinkbug. If you make it through the baffling opening segment, 'Growing Myself', hoping things will get better, tough luck - they don't. Whoever thought the idea of a woman being brutally raped with a stick of butter was comedy gold deserved to have his head handed back to him on a platter of dog mess. If there's ever a global shortage of guitar picks, the negatives of this rambling, incoherent ragbag of crummy ideas and dire performances may well serve some purpose.
    3Tito-8

    Generally stupid and dull

    This barely watchable film was a bit of an ordeal to sit through. None of the segments are good, but at least the first one was mildly amusing, and the middle one was somewhat imaginative. The final one was just plain brutal, and after sitting through two weak comedic shorts, the third one was truly painful to watch. Even by the low standards of a National Lampoon movie, this one seemed especially boring and joyless.

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    • Trivia
      The picture was completed in 1981 but wasn't widely released theatrically until two years later in 1983. In between, the movie had a limited release stateside in April 1982.
    • Quotes

      Stan Nagurski: I didn't want to say anything, but you're boring.

    • Alternate versions
      The 1992 US VHS release censors most of the profanities via dubbing (though one line is cut outright with a noticeable splice in the picture). The DVD release is uncensored.
    • Connections
      Featured in That Guy Dick Miller (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Going To The Movies
      Performed by Dr. John

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    • Release date
      • April 23, 1982 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • National Lampoon's Movie Madness
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Matty Simmons Productions
      • National Lampoon
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $63,405
    • Gross worldwide
      • $63,405
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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