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Jon Cryer (writer)
Adam Oliensis (writer)
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Release Date:
26 July 1996 (USA) more
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Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of... more | add synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jon Cryer | ... | Mark |
 | Adrian Pasdar | ... | Josh |
 | Tim Guinee | ... | Runyon |
 | Adam Oliensis | ... | Phil |
 | Mia Sara | ... | Cynthia |
 | Kristin Scott Thomas | ... | Caroline |
 | Arabella Field | ... | Lori, Phil's Wife |
| Paige Turco | ... | Gina |
 | Dana Wheeler-Nicholson | ... | Kathryn |
| Kristen Wilson | ... | Tasha |
 | Charles Q. Murphy | ... | Saxaphone Man (as Charlie Murphy) |
| Lianna Pai | ... | Ting (as Liana Pai) |
 | Jennifer Tilly | ... | Tarzaan |
| Roscoe Lee Browne | ... | Leonard Folder |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Krista Marie Bonura | ... | Phil's Daughter |
| Lisa Casillo | ... | Flight Attendant |
 | Angela Featherstone | ... | Times Square Kisser |
| Helen Haft | ... | Real Estate Broker |
 | John Hoyt | ... | Big Toe (as John Glenn Hoyt) |
| Mai Lin | ... | Choking Stripper (as May Lin) |
| John Mazzello | ... | Phil's Son |
| Jennifer McCarthy | ... | Alien Babe |
 | Michael McKean | ... | Sitcom Star |
| Eda Reiss Merin | ... | Older Woman on Plane |
 | Jack O'Connell | ... | Bartender |
| Renee Props | ... | Flynn (as Reneé Props) |
 | George Riddle | ... | Strip Club Patron |
| Fisher Stevens | ... | Sitcom Star |
| John Norman Thomas | ... | Cabbie |
| Jim Turner | ... | Dick Spellman |
| Dawnya Welsh | ... | Leonard's Stripper |
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The Pompatus of Love (France) (TV title)
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Rated R for sexuality and language.
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99 min
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The title phrase was taken from two songs by Steve Miller; the mysterious word "pompatus" was originally spelled "pompitous" in the printed lyrics. But it originally comes from the Medallions' 1954 song "The Letter", written by Vernon Green when he was 14. Green explained in the 1990s that the word actually began with "puppet" and was a term he'd made up for "a secret paper-doll fantasy figure, who would be my everything and bear my children". more
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Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007) more
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This movie seems sort of like the pilot for an unusually clever sitcom; the dialog is often very entertaining, but its character development is very weak, bordering on nonexistent. Thus, the movie feels like a collection of amusing but unrelated incidents that don't really lead anywhere or to anything. The ending seems more like just a convenient stopping point where very little has been resolved, so it provides little feeling of resolution. I was not bored while watching it, but I'm glad I didn't pay $7.00 to do so.
Overall Rating: 6 (out of 10), or 2 1/2 stars (out of 4)