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A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Ina Fried
- Jeffrey Cooper - 'Growing Yourself'
- (as Ian Fried)
Stanley Lawrence
- Sanitation Man - 'Growing Yourself'
- (as Stan Lawrence)
- Directors
- Bob Giraldi(segments Growing Yourself, Success Wanters)
- Henry Jaglom(segment Municipalians)
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe picture was completed in 1981 but wasn't widely released theatrically until two years later in 1983. In between, the movie had a limited release stateside in April 1982.
- Quotes
Stan Nagurski: I didn't want to say anything, but you're boring.
- Alternate versionsThe 1992 US VHS release censors most of the profanities via dubbing (though one line is cut outright with a noticeable splice in the picture). The DVD release is uncensored.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Minty Comedic Arts: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Vacation (2020)
- SoundtracksGoing To The Movies
Performed by Dr. John
Featured review
Deservedly an unknown movie
National Lampoon was once a funny magazine. Whether you liked the stoner hippie days of the late sixties or the smug and sassy coke-head days of the seventies (when the comedy was fortified with plenty of naked babes) depends very much on your date of birth, but everyone agrees that by the early eighties, middle age had killed off whichever remaining sparks of anarchic humour that the drugs hadn't, and offerings like this film and the increasingly terrible spin-off records shot further holes in the hull. Outside of a nicely illustrated title sequence, there's absolutely nothing to recommend this singularly depressing stinkbug. If you make it through the baffling opening segment, 'Growing Myself', hoping things will get better, tough luck - they don't. Whoever thought the idea of a woman being brutally raped with a stick of butter was comedy gold deserved to have his head handed back to him on a platter of dog mess. If there's ever a global shortage of guitar picks, the negatives of this rambling, incoherent ragbag of crummy ideas and dire performances may well serve some purpose.
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- world_of_weird
- Nov 29, 2005
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- Also known as
- National Lampoon's Movie Madness
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $63,405
- Gross worldwide
- $63,405
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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