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Jeffrey Bernini (story) &
Barry Schneider (story) ...
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24 April 1981 (USA) more
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The comedy for everyone who's had it up to here... more
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The "Alison Group" has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Franck Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them... more | add synopsis
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"Forever Your Girl": A Playlist for Paula Abdul, My American Idol
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Sad waste of talent and good songs more (10 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Robert Hays | ... | Frank Macklin | |
| Art Carney | ... | Charlie Pickett | |
| Barbara Hershey | ... | J.M. Halstead | |
| David Keith | ... | Harry Meade | |
| Tim Thomerson | ... | Ray Binkowski | |
| Martin Mull | ... | Dick Ebersol | |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Samuel Ellison | |
| Penelope Milford | ... | Lenore Meade | |
| David Allan Coe | ... | Mooney | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Lacy J. Dalton | ... | Mrs. Mooney | |
| Royal Dano | ... | Beeber | |
| Wally Engelhardt | ... | Doomar | |
| Sharon Ernster | ... | Doreen | |
| Bruce M. Fischer | ... | Jimmy | |
| Virgil Frye | ... | Cleach | |
| Mike Genovese | ... | Marvin | |
| Mary Pat Hennagir | ... | Patricia Ann | |
| James Karen | ... | Loomis | |
| Suzanne Kent | ... | Charmaine | |
| Brenda King | ... | Secretary | |
| Len Lesser | ... | Roach | |
| George Lindsey | ... | Semitruck Driver | |
| Carole Mallory | ... | B-Jo | |
| Stephan Meyers | ... | Harry Meade, Jr. | |
| Maire O'Brien | ... | Mary | |
| Johnny PayCheck | ... | Man with Hamburgers | |
| Joan Prather | ... | Madelene | |
| Charlie Rich | ... | Hooker | |
| Fran Ryan | ... | Mrs. Hinkle | |
| David Selburg | ... | Harvard Type | |
| Robert Swan | ... | Virgil | |
| Brad Waller | ... | Dugan | |
| James Whittle | ... | Installer | |
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100 min
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The appearance of Bob Chandler's "Bigfoot" monster truck is the first appearance of such a vehicle in a movie and generally credited with nationalizing the monster truck craze. Bigfoot trucks went on to appear in Cannonball Run II, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Police Academy 6: Under Siege, Road House, Tango & Cash and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle more
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Jack Frost (#9.13)" (1997) more
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You Made It Beautiful more
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When one looks at the cast of this incredibly bad film, one wonders who it could be so bad. There are good actors in this waste of celluloid...Art Carney, Royal Dano, David Keith,and Barbara Hershey, among others. In addition, the Johnny Paycheck song is a minor Country classic. There are also two genuinely funny, touching Bobby Bare/Lacy J. Dalton duets, " Beer Drinkin'Christians"(its far, far better-and even more profound- than the title makes it sound), and "Its a Dirty Job, but Someone's Got to do It." The latter song, about the collapse of a blue collar marriage, comes during one of the few moments of sociological -and human- insight in the whole mess, when David Keith and his wife are arguing about family finances and their kids futures over dinner.In the background, we see a statue of The Sacred Heart, and we realize that these people are, indeed, "beer-drinkin' Christians". The culprits are a moronic script that mixes crass., occasionally amusing slapstick with "biting' social criticism, and the flat-footed direction of Gus Trikonis, a true hack. To adapt a phrase from Ms. Dalton's song ( that sadly underused talent has a brief appearance as a bar-maid), the unfortunate soul that sits through this film will feel "..like a lame armadillo , dodging fast Chrysler's on interstate 10"...a 4. ( And that only because we get to see Ms. Hershey mud -wrestle, and because the songs are pretty good)