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American Raspberry (film)

American Raspberry
Directed by Bradley R. Swirnoff
Produced by Marcus Tarbulus
Written by John Baskin
Stephen Feinberg
Roger Shulman
Bradley R. Swrinoff
Starring Warren Oates
Kinky Friedman
Dick O'Neill
Joanna Cassidy
George Furth
Harris Yulin
Murphy Dunne
Art Fleming
Music by Dan Carlin Sr.
Cinematography Matthew F. Leonetti
Edited by Geoffrey Rowland
Distributed by Cannon Releasing Crop.
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English

American Raspberry (also known as Prime Time and Funny America) is a 1977 parody film that lampoons various films of the 1970s, much like The Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon. It was filmed for Warner Brothers with a budget $30,000 (a copyright to Warners can be seen in the title card for the Prime Time version), but was rejected as being unreleasable. Cannon Pictures later acted as distributor during a brief showing in theaters in 1980.

American Raspberry tells the story of what happens when some strange unknown sources takes over the air waves and replaces the normal programs with rude, crude, and politically incorrect programming and commercials. The President of the United States (George Furth) demands that something be done about the distasteful programming.



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