Tunnel Vision (film)
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| Tunnel Vision | |
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 The movie cover for Tunnel Vision. |
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| Directed by | Neal Israel Bradley R. Swirnoff |
| Produced by | Joe Roth |
| Written by | Neal Israel Michael Mislove |
| Starring | Chevy Chase John Candy Howard Hessman Joe Flaherty Laraine Newman Betty Thomas Phil Proctor Al Franken Ron Silver Tom Davis |
| Music by | Dennis Lambert Brian Potter |
| Distributed by | WorldWide Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 1976 |
| Running time | 70 min. |
| Language | English |
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Tunnel Vision aka Tunnelvision is comedy film starring a host of well-known actors and comedians. The film was released in 1976.
The plot of the movie revolves around the creator of a new television channel called "Tunnel Vision", which is notably free of censorship, who are under Senate investigation led by a Senator Howard Hessman who wishes to shut down the channel due to its widespread negative effects on the population of the United States. The movie consists of commercials, shorts, and trailers for fictional movies that are usually not connected to one another.
Examples of segments include "The Pregnant Man", "Western Union Marijuanagram", "The Vacant Lot", "The Last Hippies", and fake Los Angeles news broadcasts.
A movie much in the same vein as Tunnel Vision is The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Noted cameos made include John Candy Chevy Chase and Al Franken.
This was Ron Silver's film debut.
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