National Lampoon Goes to the Movies

National Lampoon Goes to the Movies
Directed by	Bob Giraldi Henry Jaglom
Produced by	Matty Simmons
Written by	Tod Carroll, Gerald Sussman, Shary Flenniken, Pat Mephitis, and Ellis Weiner
Starring	Growing Yourself Peter Riegert Diane Lane Success Wanters Ann Dusenberry Robert Culp Municipalians Robby Benson Richard Windmark
Music by	Andy Stein
Cinematography	Charles Correll Tak Fujimoto
Editing by	James Coblentz
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	November 2, 1983
Running time	89 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$5,027,193

National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (also titled as National Lampoon's Movie Madness) is a 1982 National Lampoon anthology of three shorts spoofing everything from personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. Because of its poor responses, the film was never released in cinemas, and went straight to home video.

Cast

Growing Yourself

Growing Yourself has a confused family man (Peter Riegert) who throws his wife (Candy Clark) out of the house in order for him to "grow" a new path in life and raise his four children on his own.

• Peter Riegert as Jason Cooper
• Diane Lane as Liza
• Candy Clark as Susan Cooper
• Teresa Ganzel as Diana
• Schnootie Neff as Jennifer Cooper
• Andy Shakman as Josh Cooper
• Tamar Howard as Judy Cooper
• Ian Fried as Jeffrey Cooper

Success Wanters

Success Wanters, Dominique Corsaire (Ann Dusenberry) is a young college graduate determined to succeed in life, who in a few days time lands a job as a stripper, then becomes the mistress to the owner of a margarine company which she inherits when he croaks, and is then romanced by a Greek shipping tycoon, and ultimately the US president (Fred Willard).

• Ann Dusenberry as Dominique Corsaire
• Robert Culp as Paul Everest
• Titos Vandis as Nixos Naxos
• Bobby Di Cicco as Nicholas Naxos
• Margaret Whitton as First Lady Lousille Fogerty
• Fred Willard as President Robert Fogerty
• Olympia Dukakis as Helena Naxos

Municipalians

Municipalians includes a naive rookie Los Angeles policeman (Robby Benson) paired with a cynical veteran (Richard Widmark) of the force to catch an inept serial killer (Christopher Lloyd).

• Robby Benson as Officer Brent Falcone
• Richard Widmark as Stan Nagurski
• Christopher Lloyd as Samuel Starkman
• Barry Diamond as Junkie
• Julie Kavner as Mrs. Falcone

A fourth segment was made for the film by Henry Jaglom. This was a disaster movie parody called The Bomb starring Kenneth Mars, Allen Garfield, and Marcia Strassman. Images from the segment appeared in press materials, but the segment was deleted from the finished film.

Reception

This film received very poor reviews and as a result, it was never released theatrically, but instead released on video. It currently holds a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a very poor score of 3.2/10 on Internet Movie Database.

Soundtrack

There was never an official soundtrack released, but four songs are known for appearing in the film.

1. "Going to the Movies" by Dr. John
2. "Growing Yourself" by Don McLean
3. "You Don't Love Me"
4. "Feelings" by New Orleans Nighthawks

External links

• National Lampoon Goes to the Movies at the Internet Movie Database