The Party Animal
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| The Party Animal | |
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 The Party Animal DVD cover |
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| Directed by | David Beaird |
| Produced by | Bryan England Mark Israel |
| Written by | David Beaird Alan C. Fox |
| Narrated by | Jerry Jones |
| Starring | Matthew Causey Timothy Carhart Jerry Jones Suzanne Ashley |
| Music by | Buzzcocks |
| Cinematography | Bryan England |
| Editing by | Susan Jenkins |
| Distributed by | Vestron Video International Film Marketing |
| Release date(s) | 1984 |
| Running time | 78 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The Party Animal is a movie written and directed by David Beaird. Although its crude sexual humor and abundant female nudity place it squarely in the college frat-film genre, it gains a certain uniqueness from its lack of false sentiment and from its sheer unabashed absurdity. Since its inauspicious debut in 1984, it has become a minor cult classic.
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[edit] Cast
- Matthew Causey - Pondo Sinatra
- Timothy Carhart - Studly
- Jerry Jones - Elbow
- Robin Harlan - Natasha
- Frank Galati - The Professor
- Luci Roucis - Sophia
- Joan Dykman - The Nurse
- Barbara Baylis - Madame
- Frannie James - Dean Fox
- Leland Crooke - Dean's Secretary
- Billi Gordon - The New Dean
- Suzanne Ashley - Miranda/Mother Nature
[edit] Plot
The Party Animal is a documentary-style comedy about a sex-starved male, Pondo Sinatra, a 26-year-old college student whom everyone agrees is doomed to die a virgin. Desperate to break what seems to be a cosmic curse, he tries ever more bizarre schemes to seduce one the beautiful, scantily-clad women who seem to be everywhere, taunting him and enjoying his misery. Despite his best efforts, however, he is rejected everywhere, even at the local cathouse.
Studley, Pondo's ladykilling best friend, tries to help Pondo in his quest to "get him a little", as does Studley's mentor, a wise old janitor named Elbow. The attempts include: a Cyrano de Bergerac-type seduction whereby Studley tells Pondo what to say to a girl via a remote microphone; sending Pondo to buy elegant new clothes (he goes to the Punk store by mistake and leaves looking like Quasimodo); taking massive quantities of drugs because "girls love drugs"; and using the world's biggest dildo, the Moby-M5 (the M-5 episode provides a pretext for a scene where two porn store employees discuss strategic arms limitation treaties, using various dildos as props).
One day, after many painfully funny failures, Pondo stumbles across a chemical compound that makes him irresistible to women. At first he revels in his new "party animal" prowess; later, exhausted and terrified, he takes to barricading himself in his room to escape the mobs of horny women who pursue him everywhere. "I have been greedy," he confesses despairingly to Studley; "I am like King Midas, except everything I touch turns to poontang!" He later creeps out, full of fear, to wash his clothes, and is killed by a group of fat middle-aged women who jump him at the laundromat.
[edit] Soundtrack
The film contains numerous songs by The Fleshtones, Buzzcocks and The Untouchables.
[edit] Trivia
- Matthew Causey, who plays Pondo Sinatra, is now a college professor and is reportedly not overfond of hearing the film mentioned.
