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Zeisters

  • 1986
  • R
  • 1h 18m
IMDb RATING
2.3/10
350
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Zeisters (1986)
Comedy

Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient called "the fat guy", and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient called "the fat guy", and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient called "the fat guy", and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.

  • Director
    • John Golden
  • Writers
    • John Golden
    • Roger Golden
  • Stars
    • Mark Alfred
    • Joan Allen
    • Ted Bardi
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  • IMDb RATING
    2.3/10
    350
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Golden
    • Writers
      • John Golden
      • Roger Golden
    • Stars
      • Mark Alfred
      • Joan Allen
      • Ted Bardi
    • 20User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mark Alfred
    • Milton
    Joan Allen
    • Lala
    Ted Bardi
    • Bank Member
    Craig Barnett
    • Orderly
    Josh Blake
    Josh Blake
    • Older Boy
    Lynne Marie Brown
    • Hooker
    Michael Carrafa
    • Policeman at Phone Booth
    Phillip Dacchille
    • Policeman at Phone Booth
    Jack De-Vall
    • Policeman at Phone Booth
    Anthony Di Pietro
    • Bender
    Anthony Ettari
    • Younger Boy
    Thomas Ettari
    • Younger Boy
    Tibor Feldman
    Tibor Feldman
    • Roger Morloche
    Emanuel Ferrante
    • Corpse
    Gerard Gilch
    • Camp Croton Retarded
    Jerold Goldstein
    • Freddie Fisher
    Max Jacobs
    • Mr. Gruber
    Mazie Murphy Klein
    • Corpse
    • Director
      • John Golden
    • Writers
      • John Golden
      • Roger Golden
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    1sandrewsmith

    An obvious antecedent to Rain Man and Forrest Gump.

    Anyone with a conscience should go to see this expose on the ill treatment that mentally-challenged individuals face in modern society. The Mouka is a new role-model to inspire us all to overcome our limitations and differences and become a better society. We should all bow down before the chefs at Troma for donating this documentary on the mental health system and its devastating effects on the victims of... what's that, Mother? You want me to come home? But I'm in the middle of reviewing a movie! I don't CARE if you're staring at me from your bedroom window! Look, don't make me put you in the basement with the stuffed birds again.

    Sorry about that. Anyway, this film is actually a new low in bad comedy flicks, intentional category. Most of the humor is in the title "Fat guy goes nutzoid." The rest is somewhere in between the vomiting and the Auschwitz joke and the enormous amount of body hair on display. The acting is around the level of "Glen or Glenda" and the writing would bore an 8-year-old. Pretty much the only mitigating factor is the Leo Kottke guitar score, which is fortunately too loud most of the time. Oh, and Tibor Feldman bears an uncanny resemblance to Ethan Coen, which made me want to shout "Where's Joel?" at the screen. That, of course, is not all I wanted to shout. Anyway, thanks for coming: we don't get much business since they moved the highway a few years ago. Here's your key. Cabin number 2. Why don't you take a nice, long shower after traveling so far?
    jccalhoun

    the music is the best part!

    This movie is bad. It's not even entertaining. It's really just dull. The most amazing thing is that the soundtrack is by a guitarist named Leo Kottke who is a very talented musician and is well respected for his fingerstyle technique. How did he get to be involved with this lousy movie, I will never know.
    maniac-8

    An obese lunatic is set free from a mental institution by friends only to be recaptured!

    Low, low budget troma comedy, featuring some fat guy and his friends who save him from a life of solitude in a mental home.
    1Progbear-4

    Agony personified

    Abandon hope all ye who enter here. This may well be one of the worst movies of any notoriety I've ever had the misfortune to see. The wacky title may pique your curiosity, but make no mistake...this film isn't "so bad it's good", it's just irredeemably awful and stultifyingly dull. It's overloaded with long stretches of *nothing* where you pray that something, *anything* even slightly interesting might happen, but it doesn't. Apparently, someone thought this was a "comedy", but I fail to see anything in it that anyone with a brain might find funny, even unintentionally. I wasn't offended by any of it, I was too bored to be offended. The one bright spot in this horrible film is the mesmerizing acoustic-guitar soundtrack by Leo Kottke. Skip this horrible film, and buy Kottke's _6 and 12 String Guitar_ CD instead, you'll be glad you did.
    prufrock5150

    Misleading Title...

    Whereas the audience is entreated to identify the promised "fat guy" and discover the degree to which he "goes nutzoid," s/he instead is placed in an epistemological quandary: how do we know who the "fat guy" is, and what type of behavior qualifies as "nutzoid?" Indeed, there are two fat guys in the film, and were the viewer to identify which of them were the intended referent of the title by analyzing their respective nutzoiditude, s/he would arrive at a standoff wherein the viewer is exhorted to discover the inherent social nutzoidity of a cruelly indifferent world harshly juxtaposed against the existential nutzoidness of a benevolent and childlike zest. Surely this film invites post-structuralist and semiotic analysis almost as bountifully as Girls Gone Wild (Totally Unexposed 8, that is) invites geopolitical discussion. And here I was, just expecting to see a fat guy going nutzoid .. .

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      An alternate title for this film is "Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid."
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      Referenced in The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)

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    • Release date
      • September 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Troma
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Jetzt flippt der Dicke völlig aus
    • Filming locations
      • Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Golden Boys Productions
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      1 hour 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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