Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 07/10/1987(USA)
Release Date: 11/15/2005
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: MGM
In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace,
Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the
National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (
Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (
Neil Barry), are a pair of misfit teenagers whose greatest joy in life is making those around them miserable. O.C.'s ancient grandfather (
Ray Walston) has just had his insurance cancelled, and when he discovers that suburbanite salesman Randall Schwabb (
Paul Dooley) is responsible, O.C. and Stiggs swing into a summer-long campaign to get revenge on Schwabb and his family. While it received some of the most brutally negative reviews of Altman's career,
O.C. and Stiggs is worth a quick look for its cast, which includes fellow outcast auteurs
Dennis Hopper and
Melvin Van Peebles, comics
Louis Nye and
Jane Curtain, the one-time glamour girl of the
Clifford Irving scandal
Nina Van Pallandt, and
Thomas Hal Phillips, reprising his role as Hal Phillip Walker from
Nashville. World music superstars
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats appear and provide the musical score.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
