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The Flintstones (1994)

 -  Comedy | Family | Fantasy  -  27 May 1994 (USA)
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In this live-action feature of the cartoon show, Fred Flintstone finally gets the job he's always wanted, but it may just come at a price.

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Storyline

The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred's, whose answers aren't very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he's being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

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Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Rated PG for some mild innuendos | See all certifications »

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27 May 1994 (USA)  »

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$45,000,000 (estimated)

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£19,723,140 (UK) (9 September 1994)
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Trivia

Because the cartoon version of Barney Rubble is supposed to be a short man, no actor 5'6 or over was considered for the role of Barney Rubble. See more »

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When Cliff Vandercave ransacks Fred and Wilma's house and takes the children, he leaves a note telling them to bring the dicta bird to the quarry tomorrow at dawn. His motive, of course was to prevent the bird from telling people what he and his secretary had done. The bird, however had already done just that with every former employee. Of course, Vandercave may not have known that when he took the kids, but between that evening and dawn the next day the bird would have had more than enough time to expose the plot, if he hadn't already. So what was the point? See more »

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[first lines]
Foreman: Hey, back to work! You guys had a break two days ago!
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No dinosaurs were be harmed for the production of this motion picture. See more »

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Referenced in Troldspejlet: Matinee (1994) See more »

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"PREHISTORIC DAZE"
Written by David A. Stewart and Siobhan Fahey
Performed by Shakespear's Sister (as Shakespears Sister) & The Holy Ghost
Courtesy of London Records
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Well-made live action imitation...
12 January 2003 | by (Evansville, Indiana USA) – See all my reviews

1st watched 1/12/2003 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Brian Levant): Well-made live action imitation of the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Maybe it's because Hanna & Barbera were involved and were two of the executive producers of the movie as well as having small roles in the production. Besides this, this classic tale of life in the stone age had tremendous casting in the way of John Goodman(Fred Flintstone), Rick Moranis(Barney Rubbel) and the entire group for that matter. The movie starts with the Rubbel family adding a new member in the adopted Bam-Bam and then the rest of the movie matches pretty much the way the two families lived their lives & worked together as neighbors in the prehistoric town of Bedrock. Of course there is evil-a-foot within a demented man in a higher position in the stone quarry who tries to frame Fred and the rest of the movie is a culmination of all this. What is great about the movie & the series the Flintstones is that no matter what trouble they got in, the families always patched it up in the end showing us what true friends our made of. And besides all this the movie was funny & visually appealing too !!


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