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Bookmark this pageAmazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Director: John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A formless compendium of sketches very loosely parodying late-night American television. The tone veers from slapstick (the predictable but delightfully over-the-top opening sketch about the perils of condo-life) through stodgy satire (the excesses of computer dating) to smutty silliness (Video Date). The overall result, unsurprisingly, is patchy in the extreme. Weiss' title piece - fragments guying the portentous scripts, wooden acting and non-existent budgets of Z-grade '50s sci-fi movies - is obvious but occasionally spot-on with its appalling sets and repetitive use of the same bit of landscape; Dante's Critics Corner, in which a pair of TV reviewers turn from movies like Winter of My Despondency to real lives, is pleasantly dark; and Landis' own Blacks Without Soul, featuring singing dork Don Simmons, who 'turned a personal affliction into a career', is a gem of brevity and precision. Slim pickings.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton
Producer: Robert K Weiss
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg, Monique Gabrielle, Michelle Pfeiffer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 84 mins
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