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Good Times (film)

Good Times
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Original theatrical release poster
Directed by William Friedkin
Produced by Steve Broidy
Lindsley Parsons
Written by Tony Barrett
Nicholas Hyams
Starring Sonny Bono
Cher
Music by Sonny Bono
Cinematography Robert Wyckoff
Edited by Melvin Shapiro
Production
company
ABC
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1967 (1967-05-12)
Running time
91 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1.115 million
Box office $800,000

Good Times is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Sonny & Cher. The film marks the feature directorial debut (excluding documentaries) of William Friedkin, who later directed The French Connection and The Exorcist.

Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a film contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus, played by George Sanders, who also plays the antagonist in each of Sonny's ideas for the proposed film, which are played out in a number of skits featuring music and dancing by the star duo.

Sonny Bono wanted to make a movie starring him and Cher and was introduced to William Friedkin, a young documentary filmmaker who had just moved into drama and who, like Bono, was represented by the William Morris Agency. They got along well and Abe Lastfogel managed to get Steve Broidy to agree to finance a movie.

Bono and Friedkin started reading through scripts and received a letter from a novice screenwriter Nicholas Hyams, who suggested Sonny and Cher made a film about them making a movie. Hyams was hired but Friedkin says the collaboration with him was not easy - "he was condescending to Sonny and disdainful of me." Hyams was fired and Friedkin and Bono wound up writing the script themselves based on Hyams' original idea. Broidy wanted to call the film I Got You Babe but Bono preferred Good Times, based on a song he was writing at the time.


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