A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
- Wally's Daughter
- (as Erica Lancaster)
- Natalie
- (as Jackie Harris)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe Cancer Boy character was a rather contentious part of the movie. A Paramount executive, who had a loved one suffering from cancer, was so offended by Cancer Boy when a rough cut was shown they demanded the character be removed from the film, but the Kids adamantly refused. The executive would get revenge by making sure the film had a limited theatrical release with little advertisements. Looking back, the Kids would admit that Cancer Boy ended up killing the film's chances financially, with David Foley and Kevin McDonald feeling they should have just relented and cut the scene so the movie would have gotten a wider release while Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney do not regret it artistically, feeling that Cancer Boy is a biting satire of celebrities who exploit sick children for publicity.
- GoofsWhen the psychiatrist writes a prescription for Gleemonex for the repressed gay character, we see a large microphone hanging from the patient's neck during an over-the-shoulder shot as he's sitting up on the couch.
- Quotes
Wally: Doctor, why do those types
[motions with hands]
Wally: keep thinking that I'm one of them?
Psychiatrist: Well, Wally, because you *are* one of them. You are gay. You are gay. You are a homosexual. The opposite of straight, you're gay. I know it. Your family knows it. DOGS know it! Everyone seems to know it except you.
- Crazy creditsAfter the credits, Mother Hurdicure is distressed over her grandson flying away with the balloons she gave him, and is queried by the boy's mother as to his whereabouts.
- Alternate versionsThe Kids in the Hall originally filmed a different ending to the film where Dr. Chris Cooper (played by 'Kevin McDonald') fell into a coma and dreamed the ending. Apparently this included "an elaborate parade, complete with Coma Queens, candy-coloured floats, and a grinning mob", but unfortunately it scored poorly with test audiences. Paramount and the Kids re-evaluated the ending and agreed it lacked dramatic-weight and was "too scattered". They re-shot the ending in January.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Scott Thompson/Lee Roy Parnell (1996)
- SoundtracksSome Days It's Dark
by Craig Northey, Steven Drake & Bruce McCulloch
performed by Death Lurks
Death Lurks is Bruce McCulloch & Odds
produced by Nigel the Cat
Bruce McCulloch performs courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
Odds perform courtesy of Warner Music Canada Ltd.
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- Oct 18, 2009
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,654,308
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $770,280
- Apr 14, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $2,654,308
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