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Cyra McFadden (novel)
Rich Eustis (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
28 March 1980 (USA) more
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"Honor thy wife, and everyone else's." more
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It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual... more | add synopsis
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One (make that more than one) funny movie--and ahead of its time! more (29 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Martin Mull | ... | Harvey Holroyd |
 | Tuesday Weld | ... | Kate Linville Holroyd |
| Jennifer McAllister | ... | Joanie Holroyd |
| Sam Chew Jr. | ... | Bill |
| Sally Kellerman | ... | Martha |
| Anthony Battaglia | ... | Stokely |
| Bill Macy | ... | Sam Stone |
| Nita Talbot | ... | Angela Stone |
| Pamela Bellwood | ... | Carol |
| Barbara Rhoades | ... | Vivian |
| Ann Weldon | ... | Rachel |
| Peter Bonerz | ... | Dr. Leonard Miller |
| Jon Fong | ... | Wong |
 | Christopher Lee | ... | Luckman Skull |
| Patch Mackenzie | ... | Stella |
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86 min
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Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R
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Stokely:
In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane.
Harvey Holroyd:
Where'd you get that?
Stokely:
Star Trek.
[leaves the room]
Harvey Holroyd:
[to himself] God, I miss that show.
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Referenced in Fade to Black (1980) more
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A Changing World more
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I must have seen Serial a half dozen times when it hit theatres. Ads were run wondering why not enough people were going to see it (hey, I was only one guy, I did my best). It should have been a monster money maker!
As others have said, this movie has fun with the Politically Correct. I thought it might have been a wake-up call (albeit a funny one) about the excesses of muddled thought and trend-of-the week morality, but it was sadly just a cataloging of PC in its infancy. Political Correctness has actually grown to be just as wacky (and all too prevalent) as Serial painted it. That said, don't think you've seen it all and heard it all from the PC crowd because so well made is Serial that it still keeps its edge
Serial also has some of the most shocking uses of profanity I've ever heard (and I loathe profanity), but is done in such a new way (still) that it's amazingly funny. Speaking of new, so far ahead of its time was Serial that it introduced gags that have since been done to death. Tired of "Born to Be Wild" used as a joke instead of a rebel anthem. The joke started here (for gay bikers, no less).
So when the PC crowd gets you down, grab Serial, sit down with your other of the moment (you-ness, me-ness, us-ness, we-ness) and enjoy.