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 Ellis Weiner |
| Starring |
Growing Yourself Peter Riegert Diane Lane Success Wanters Ann Dusenberry Robert Culp Municipalians Robby Benson Richard Widmark |
| Music by | Andy Stein |
| Cinematography |
Charles Correll Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | James Coblentz |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Company |
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89 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $5,027,193 |
National Lampoon's Movie Madness is an American comedy film produced by National Lampoon as the second film from the magazine. The film was originally produced under the title National Lampoon Goes to the Movies; completed in 1981, the film was not released until 1983, and was reedited and retitled as Movie Madness.
Movie Madness consists of three short segments which satirize personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. The first two segments of the film, Growing Yourself and Success Wanters, were directed by Bob Giraldi, while the film's final segment, Municipalians, was directed by Henry Jaglom. Its title song, "Going to the Movies", was sung by Dr. John. The film was a critical failure.
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).
National Lampoon Goes To The Movies was the second film produced by the magazine National Lampoon, after Animal House. National Lampoon Goes To The Movies was conceived as a parody of ten film and television genres. In A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Josh Karp described the project as "a cocaine-fueled fiasco; nobody had a sense of structure or any idea how to write a screenplay." Eventually, the screenplay was trimmed down to four segments: a "divorce movie", a "making-it-big movie", a "cop movie" and a "terrorist movie". Writer Shary Flenniken said of the project, "We cut stuff and boiled it down. It lost its purpose and just became a bunch of crazy crap."
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