O.C. and Stiggs

O.C. and Stiggs
Directed by	Robert Altman
Produced by	Robert Altman Peter Newman
Written by	Ted Mann Donald Cantrell
Starring	Daniel H. Jenkins Neill Barry Paul Dooley Jane Curtin Martin Mull Dennis Hopper Ray Walston Louis Nye Melvin Van Peebles Tina Louise Cynthia Nixon Jon Cryer and Bob Uecker
Music by	King Sunny Adé
Cinematography	Pierre Mignot
Editing by	Elizabeth Kling
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	July 10, 1987
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$7,000,000 (est.)

O.C. and Stiggs is a 1987 film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon. The film stars Daniel H. Jenkins and Neill Barry as the title characters. Other members of the cast include Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Martin Mull, Dennis Hopper, Ray Walston, Louis Nye, Melvin Van Peebles, Tina Louise, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Cryer and Bob Uecker.

King Sunny Adé appears in the film and provided the score.

The film, a raunchy teen comedy described by the British Film Institute as "probably Altman's least successful film," was not released after post-production was completed. MGM shelved it for a couple of years, finally giving it a limited theatrical release in 1987 and 1988. In an interview years later, included on the DVD release of Tanner '88, Altman acknowledges that the film didn't work but is quick to defend the cast, which included Tanner star Cynthia Nixon, saying it was "not their fault."

O.C. & Stiggs is the adventure of two Arizona teenagers. In their car, the Gila Monster, they pick up slags (loose women), torture their nemesis, Randall Schwab, while procuring liquor from "Wino Bob" (a bum who lives in the oleander bushes behind the 7-Eleven).

The movie's plot was very loosely based on an O.C. and Stiggs adventure in National Lampoon magazine. O.C. and Stiggs were recurring characters in the magazine, eventually leading up to the entire October 1982 issue being devoted to a fictional first-person account of the story of their summer, "The Utterly Monstrous Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs." The plotline and main characters of this movie were significantly different than the National Lampoon story they were based on. Most notably, the original magazine characters were destructive, malevolent teenagers, whereas the main characters of the movie were not inherently destructive, and significant portions of the magazine story were left out of the movie. Alan Moore's comic characters D.R. and Quinch are a science fiction take on the magazine's O.C. and Stiggs characters.

External links

• O.C. and Stiggs at the Internet Movie Database
• O.C. and Stiggs at AllRovi
• Plot summary from the New York Times
• Lengthy review from the website of two members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle
• Onion A.V. Club review