The Party Animal

Infobox Film
name = The Party Animal


caption = "The Party Animal" DVD cover
director = David Beaird
producer = Bryan England
Mark Israel
writer = Alan C. Fox and
David Beaird (story)
David Beaird (screenplay)
narrator = Jerry Jones
starring = Matthew Causey
Timothy Carhart
Jerry Jones
Suzanne Ashley
cinematography = Bryan England
editing = Susan Jenkins
distributor = International Film Marketing
released = January 1985 (USA)
runtime = 78 mins
country = United States
language = English
budget = Unknown
gross Unknown
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amg_id = 1:37328
imdb_id = 0087889

"The Party Animal" is a movie written and directed by "David Beaird." Although its crude sexual humor and abundant female nudity place it squarely in the college frat-film genre, it gains a certain uniqueness from its lack of false sentiment and from its unabashed absurdity. Since its inauspicious debut in 1984, it has become a minor cult classic.

Cast

*Matthew Causey - Pondo Sinatra
*Timothy Carhart - Studly
*Jerry Jones - Elbow
*Robin Harlan - Natasha
*Frank Galati - The Professor
*Luci Roucis - Sophia
*Joan Dykman - The Nurse
*Barbara Baylis - Madame
*Frannie James - Dean Fox
*Leland Crooke - Dean's Secretary
*Billi Gordon - The New Dean
*Suzanne Ashley - Miranda/Mother Nature

Plot

"The Party Animal" is a documentary-style comedy about a sex-starved male, Pondo Sinatra, a 26-year-old college student whom everyone agrees is doomed to die a virgin. Desperate to break what seems to be a cosmic curse, he tries ever more bizarre schemes to seduce one the sexy, scantily-clad women who seem to be everywhere, taunting him and enjoying his misery. Despite his best efforts, however, he is rejected everywhere, even at the local cathouse. When Pondo threatens to kill himself, Studley, his ladykilling best friend, tries to help him in his quest to "get him a little", as does Studley's mentor, a wise old janitor named Elbow. The attempts include: a Cyrano de Bergerac-type seduction whereby Studley tells Pondo what to say to a girl via a remote microphone; sending Pondo to buy elegant new clothes (he goes to the Punk store by mistake and leaves looking like Quasimodo); taking massive quantities of drugs because "girls love drugs"; and using the world's biggest vibrater, the Moby-M5 (the M-5 episode provides a pretext for a scene where two porn store employees discuss strategic arms limitation treaties, using various dildos as props).

After one of these painfully funny dating debacles, Pondo frightens Studley by shouting: "I'D SELL MY SOUL FOR A PIECE OF ASS!" A nearby goddess (Suzanne Ashley)– a mysterious woman who has been observing Pondo's struggles for some time– hears his cry and cryptically acknowledges it. Some time afterward, Pondo accidentally creates a chemical compound that makes him irresistible to women. At first he revels in his new "party animal" prowess; later, exhausted and terrified, he takes to barricading himself in his room to escape the mobs of horny women who pursue him everywhere. "I have been greedy," he confesses despairingly to Studley; "I am like King Midas; everything I touch turns to poontang!" He later creeps out, full of fear, to wash his clothes, and is killed by a group of fat middle-aged women who jump him at the laundromat.

oundtrack

The film contains numerous songs by The Fleshtones, Buzzcocks and The Untouchables.

Cast notes

*Matthew Causey, who plays Pondo Sinatra, is now a college professor and is reportedly not overfond of hearing the film mentioned.

ee also

*1984 in film

External links

*imdb title|title=The Party Animal|id=0087889