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The Stupids

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Time Out says

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.

Release Details

  • Duration:94 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:John Landis
  • Screenwriter:Brent Forrester
  • Cast:
    • Tom Arnold
    • Jessica Lundy
    • Bug Hall
    • Alex McKenna
    • Mark Metcalf
    • Matt Keeslar
    • Christopher Lee
    • David Cronenberg
    • Costa-Gavras
    • Gillo Pontecorvo
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