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Writers:
Tod Carroll (stories) &
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Release Date:
1985 (USA) more
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Plot:
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: middle class. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Daniel Jenkins ... Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie (as Daniel H. Jenkins)
Neill Barry ... Mark Stiggs

Jane Curtin ... Elinore Schwab
Paul Dooley ... Randall Schwab

Jon Cryer ... Randall Schwab Jr.
Laura Urstein ... Lenore Schwab
Victor Ho ... Frankie Tang
Ray Walston ... Grandpa 'Gramps' Ogilvie
Donald May ... Jack Stiggs
Carla Borelli ... Stella Stiggs
Stephanie Elfrink ... Missie Stiggs
Amanda Hull ... Debbie Stiggs
James Gilsenan ... Barney Beaugereaux
Tina Louise ... Florence Beaugereaux

Cynthia Nixon ... Michelle
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Additional Details

Runtime:
109 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:13 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:12 (video re-rating) (2005) | USA:R
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Fun Stuff

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After poor test screenings MGM shelved the film, only granting it a limited release in 1987. more
Quotes:
Mark Stiggs: [specifying the Gila Monster car to Ms Bunny] OK, Ms. Bunny! Number 1, we want zero miles to the gallon.
Oliver Cromwell 'O.C.' Ogilvie: Right. No MPGs. It has to be a vulgarlay inefficient mode of trasnportation.
Mark Stiggs: Loud, real loud. It has to generate a terrifyingly seismic field of noise. If we could combine really loud noise with the ugliness of poverty, we'd have the ideal car.
Mark Stiggs: ...making people think that you're poor, so they know you've got nothing to loose if they crash into your car....
Mark Stiggs: Here's a list of places I want this car to be totally unwelcome. Number one: funerals. Number two: affairs of state, you know, real formal ones...ones with...chamber music. Number three: wet golf greens. Number four: the acropolis.
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Underrated, 15 January 1999
Author: Daniel Crean from Austin, Texas

Like many of Robert Altman's smaller movies, O.C. and Stiggs is under-appreciated. Most of the teenage movies that clogged up the mid-80's consisted of nothing more than stupid sex jokes and gross-out shots designed to humiliate straw men villains. O.C. and Stiggs is a movie where you feel that all sorts of things are possible. It's humorous in the best sense.

It remains a mystery why some of Altman's films are overrated (e.g. The Player and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean), while others are immediately forgotten.

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