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The Stupids (1995)
Director: John Landis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The Stupids are a weird family, but entirely lacking the intriguingly dysfunctional nature of, say, the Simpsons (which Tom Arnold used to write). Ex-mailman Stanley (Arnold), Joan (Lundy), and kids Buster (Hall) and sweet Petunia (McKenna) inhabit a '50s world of candy-stripe colours, gingham bows, puff skirts and alien-movie speech patterns. Their true provenance, however, is American children's television and its dim never-never land of permutational studio sitcoms. The dumb surreal - Stanley taking the goldfish for a walk, the expostulations on the weekly theft of their garbage - one can accept. But the rambling, episodic narrative, laden with naff sight gags, dissipates attention in minutes.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: John Landis
Producer: Leslie Belzberg
Cast: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna, Mark Metcalf, Matt Keeslar, Christopher Lee, David Cronenberg, Costa-Gavras, Gillo Pontecorvo full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 94 mins
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