Delirious (film)

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Delirious
The movie cover for Delirious.
Directed by	Tom Mankiewicz
Produced by	Larry Cohen Fred Freeman Doug Claybourne
Written by	Fred Freeman Lawrence J. Cohen
Starring	John Candy
Music by	Cliff Eidelman
Distributed by	MGM Pictures
Release date(s)	August 9, 1991
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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Delirious is a romantic comedy film starring John Candy. It was released in 1991, but it did not achieve commercial success at the box offices. Some speculate that John Candy was better suited to pure comedy roles rather than ones within the realm of the romantic comedy genre.^{[citation needed]}

Despite these issues with the film, it has a cult following, as a sleeper comedy classic.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The film opens in a lush 1970's soap opera, complete with the characters you expect to find, in a small town of immense wealth and ludicrous backstabbing... which breaks and we see that it is of course a set. John Candy plays a nearly out-of-work soap opera writer, whose product, like him, is now dated and the audience is becoming jaded - so he decides, or rather has decided for him, that he should take a cross-country trip. His car breaks down, and he must stay at a local Motel. He is not immediately made suspicious by the whole familiarity of the place. For fun he types in his typewriter "My car will be fixed tomorrow morning" - and the words magically disappear, and the car is fixed. At this point he begins to explore the little town - and discovers that he is literally within his Soap Opera, and that his typewriter is literally in control! Hilarious events ensue, where he experiences the height of the high life, the lowest of the low, the full gamut of experiences, including a wild party which he wrote while drunk, featuring a fish on legs... and the immortal line "I must have been really drunk when I wrote this..." The film ends with that most impossible of resolutions - the gift of happy conclusions to the character's feuding lives, with John as the fairy godfather to his creations.