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The Chicken Chronicles (1977) -- It's the late '60s and Dave Kessler is in his final year of high school. His life is full of problems: with his school principal, with his boss, with his successful younger brother, and with getting Margaret - the "All American Girl" - into bed.

Overview

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Director:
Frank Simon
Writer:
Paul Diamond (writer)
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Release Date:
October 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
The Spirit of 69...When The Lights Turned Off...The Kids Turned On!
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User Comments:
Correcting Some False Info Included In Other Comments more (6 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Phil Silvers ... Max Ober
Ed Lauter ... Vice Principal Nastase

Steve Guttenberg ... David Kessler
Lisa Reeves ... Margaret Shaffer
Meridith Baer ... Tracy Vogel

Branscombe Richmond ... Mark
Will Seltzer ... Weinstein
Kutee ... Maddy
Gino Baffa ... Charlie Kessler
Robert Resnick ... Stuart
Joseph G. Medalis ... Mr. Phinney (as Joe Medalis)
Robin T. Williams ... Vanessa
Clark Brandon ... Lee

Jon Gries ... Tom (as Jonathon Gries)
John Starr ... Saul
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
Brazil:95 min | USA:95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:18 | USA:PG (re-rating on appeal) | USA:R (original rating) | UK:X (original rating)
Company:
AVCO Embassy Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The writer, Paul Diamond, absolutely avers that the title was a tribute to Ray Bradbury's 'Martian Chronicles" more
Movie Connections:
Edited into 42nd Street Forever Part 4 (2009) (V) more
Soundtrack:
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9 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Correcting Some False Info Included In Other Comments, 4 June 2005
Author: (city5705boy@yahoo.com) from Des Moines, Iowa

While reading other comments on this film, let me clear up some inaccurate info, This was not Steve Guttenberg's film debut, that would have been an (uncredited, but clearly there) role as a delivery FBI assistant in the film "Rollercoaster" which premiered about four months before "Chicken Chronicles".

Regarding this as Phil Silver's last role, False again, this film was out in 1977, in 1980 Phil played a wheel-chair bound, film studio owner in the film "Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" which also starred Adam West, and Richard Deacon.

I saw this film at the theater in the fall of 1977, and found the home video in 1987. The film's funny, and has a good soundtrack including several Classics IV, and Canned Heat songs. (By the way there is a soundtrack to it, which I found on a trip to Chicago in the early 80's).

I feel a PG rating is pretty liberal (especially for 1977), even though there's not many four-letter words, the sex themes, and drug use, should warrant it an R (for that time), this is probably why the industry invented the PG-13, probably not R, but definitely not PG either.

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