| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | |
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| Directed by | Bob Giraldi Henry Jaglom |
| Produced by | Matty Simmons |
| Written by | Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, Shary Flenniken, Pat Mephitis, and Ellis Weiner |
| Starring | Growing Yourself Peter Riegert Diane Lane Success Wanters Ann Dusenberry Robert Culp Municipalians Robby Benson Richard Windmark |
| Music by | Andy Stein |
| Cinematography | Charles Correll Tak Fujimoto |
| Editing by | James Coblentz |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | November 2, 1983 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $5,027,193 |
National Lampoon's Movie Madness (also titled as National Lampoon Goes to the Movies) is a 1982 National Lampoon anthology of three shorts spoofing everything from personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. Because of its poor responses, the film was never released in cinemas, and went straight to home video.
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Growing Yourself has a confused family man (Peter Riegert) who throws his wife (Candy Clark) out of the house in order for him to "grow" a new path in life and raise his four children on his own.
Success Wanters, Dominique Corsaire (Ann Dusenberry) is a young college graduate determined to succeed in life, who in a few days time lands a job as a stripper, then becomes the mistress to the owner of a margarine company which she inherits when he croaks, and is then romanced by a Greek shipping tycoon, and ultimately the US president (Fred Willard).
Municipalians includes a naive rookie Los Angeles policeman (Robby Benson) paired with a cynical veteran (Richard Widmark) of the force to catch an inept serial killer (Christopher Lloyd).
A fourth segment was made for the film by Henry Jaglom. This was a disaster movie parody called The Bomb starring Kenneth Mars, Allen Garfield, and Marcia Strassman. Images from the segment appeared in press materials, but the segment was deleted from the finished film.
This film received very poor reviews and as a result, it was never released theatrically, but instead released on video. It currently holds a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a very poor score of 3.2/10 on Internet Movie Database.
There was never an official soundtrack released, but four songs are known for appearing in the film.
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