Loose Shoes (1980)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Ira Miller

Writers:

Ian Praiser (screenplay) &
Varley Smith (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

August 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

There won't be a dry seat in the house!

Plot:

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story"...

Plot Keywords:

Inmate | Spoof | Prison | Sketch Comedy | Nudity

Cast

Royce D. Applegate	...	Delmus
Lewis Arquette	...	Warden
Tom Baker	...	Billy Jerk
Dorothy Van	...	Army Nurse
Dan Barrows	...	Shaggy Dog
J.J. Barry	...	Indian #1
Pat Benson	...	Martha
Jack Bernardi	...	Sam, Prisoner
Jane Alice Brandon	...	Mildred
Thomas Brunelle	...	Biker
Paul Camen	...	Lieutenant
Billy Curtis	...	Menchkin
Paul David	...	Kid
Anthony Davis	...	Guard
Danny Dayton	...	Bartender

Also Known As:

Coming Attractions
Quackers

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

San Bernardino County, California, USA

Company:

Brooksfilms

Trivia:

The title of the movie, along with a musical number in the movie, gets it's name from an incident in 1976 when US President Gerald Ford's Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz was forced to resign after it was reported that he joked that "the only thing the coloreds are looking for in life are tight p****, loose shoes, and a warm place to s***."

Goofs:

Continuity: In the "Welcome to Bacon County" segment: It's nighttime when the van pulls over because it's out of gas. Inside the van it's daytime, then when Elijah and Boobies get out, it's nighttime again.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Bad News Bears (1976)

Over A Dozen Films Ripped Off Loose Shoes!

I saw Loose Shoes featuring Bill Murray when it first came out (1980) and enjoyed it, but filed it under the same satiric label as Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube also from that era, and forgot about it.

But I saw it recently, and suddenly realized that over a dozen modern movies (as well as TV shows) totally did RIP-OFFS of the many parody plots from this flick! The writers of this thing turned out to be total psychic geniuses when it came to future entertainment! For instance:

Does a talking pig from the farm going to the big city, like Babe sound familiar? And a bio on Howard Hughes, like Aviator? And Skateboarders From Hell, ala the recent skateboard flick Doggtown And Z Boy? Or how about a western slant to the Wizard Of Oz, like that recent Richard Dreyfus thing? And a Space Odyssey spoof, like the later Space Idiocy starring Leslie Neilsen, plus a Star Wars take-off like the later Spaceballs by Mel Brooks. Add to that a raunchy sequel to the Bad News Bears, like the recent... raunchy sequel to the Bad News Bears, starring Billy Bob Thornton. And the list goes on and on!