Good Burger
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| Directed by | Brian Robbins |
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| Music by | Stewart Copeland |
| Cinematography | Mac Ahlberg |
| Edited by | Anita Brandt-Burgoyne |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.5 million |
| Box office | $23.7 million |
Good Burger is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. It evolved from the comedy sketch of the same name featured on the Nickelodeon series All That. It was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Tollin/Robbins Productions, and was released on July 25, 1997 by Paramount Pictures.
On the first day of summer, a slacking high school student, Dexter Reed (Kenan Thompson), takes his mother's car on a joyride while she is on a business trip and accidentally crashes into and damages the car of his teacher, Mr. Wheat (Sinbad). Dexter is in danger of going to jail, as he does not have a driver's license or insurance. But Mr. Wheat agrees to let Dexter pay for the damages to both cars in exchange for not calling the police on Dexter. With the damages estimated at $1,900, Dexter is forced to get a summer job. After being fired from a job at Mondo Burger for insulting the manager, Kurt Bozwell (Jan Schweiterman), he ends up finding employment at Good Burger where he meets and reluctantly befriends dimwitted Ed (Kel Mitchell) and a host of other colorful employees. Initially neither of them are aware that it was in fact Ed who inadvertently caused Dexter's car accident.
Things take a turn for the worse when a new Mondo Burger location opens across the street from Good Burger, its fancy decor and oversized burgers threatening to close down the smaller restaurant. Fortunately, Good Burger is saved by the invention of a secret sauce made by Ed. Upon learning from Mr. Wheat that the true damages from the car accident exceed the original $1,900 estimate, Dexter takes advantage of Ed to make money off the secret sauce in order to pay off his debt sooner. Ed signs a contract that gives Dexter 80% of his profits.
Ed's sauce is a huge success and vastly improves Good Burger's business, but draws the attention of Kurt Bozwell who attempts to obtain the sauce for Mondo Burger. After failing to lure Ed away from Good Burger for a higher hourly wage at Mondo Burger, Kurt sends Roxanne (Carmen Electra) to seduce Ed into giving her the recipe for the sauce, but to no avail.
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