The Onion Movie (2008)

Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.

Directors:

Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire

Writers:

Todd Hanson, Robert D. Siegel

Stars:

Daniel Chacón, Len Cariou, Sarah McElligott

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Daniel Chacón	...	Young American / Cock Puncher
Ken Takemoto	...	Sensei
Steven Seagal	...	Cock Puncher
Don McManus	...	Dennis McCormick
Kate Fuglei	...	Dolores McCormick
Abigail Mavity	...	Roseanne McCormick
Reid Weaver	...	Dennis McCormick, Jr.
Brian Powell	...	Typical Neighbor Husband
Adele Robbins	...	Typical Neighbor Wife
Jason L. Miller	...	Sooty Firefighter
Brendon Baerg	...	Sooty Child
Len Cariou	...	Norm Archer
Larissa Laskin	...	Dana Dobbs
Scott Klace	...	Kip Kendall
Barbara Pilavin	...	Alzheimers Old Lady

Storyline

We watch the Onion News, America's Finest News Source, with Dana Dobbs, Senior Correspondent Kip Kendall, and award-winning anchor Norm Archer. In addition to watching the news, we see the program's commercials, some commentary on the film as it proceeds, and we watch some terrorists in training. Behind the scenes, Onion News's corporate owner, Global Tetrahedron, seeks synergy by promoting its other products within Norm's news broadcast. Norm doesn't like it, especially when a toy penguin (think Energizer Bunny) waddles across his desk promoting a Global Tetrahedron film starring Steven Seagal. But Norm may end up needing Steven's help.

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Plot Keywords:

penguin | commercial | terrorist | simulated sex | fake newscast | 

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Taglines:

America's finest news source.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

7 January 2008 (Brazil)

Also Known As:

Onion Movie

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

3 Arts Entertainment, Fox Searchlight Pictures, New Regency Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally filmed in late 2003, this was subsequently shelved for many years and never released theatrically (allegedly after poor test screening). Finally released directly to DVD in June 2008.

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Goofs

In the scene they are playing the board game and one of the guys is drinking "Hawaiian punch" the level of the drink goes from full to empty back to full.

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Quotes

Norm Archer: The internet went down for three hours this morning, plunging the nation into productivity. The outage, which caused major work startages from New York to California, prevented an estimated 120 million American employees from messing around on the web at work.

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Crazy Credits

Watch after the credits as Norm Archer comes on screen sitting at his news-desk saying "For the Onion News, this is Norm Archer. Fuck you and Good Night".

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Connections

References Network (1976)

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Soundtracks

"Down On My Knees"
Written by Asche & Spencer
Performed by Lisa Marie Furth

User Reviews

Must have been written just for me

There are very few movies that can actually blindside me with a punchline. The Onion Movie did that repeatedly. The plot is very light, and this makes the movie even more enjoyable, I think. But not only is it light, it's also very relevant and critical of the common practices of mass media now-a-days. This movie pulls off a lot of what idiocracy only kind-of succeeded at. From the Hasselhoff bit to the mid-show Asian review to the d&d sketch, the Onion Movie is a rare breath of fresh air!

I won't include a url, but there's a pretty funny audio review on the hotcakes podcast (episode 9) if anyone cares to search it out.