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O.C. and Stiggs: Directed by Robert Altman. With Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Jane Curtin, Paul Dooley. O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Robert Altman
- 1985
O.C. and Stiggs is a 1987 American teen comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters that were originally featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon magazine. [2] The film stars Daniel H. Jenkins and Neill Barry as the title characters.
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: middle class.
- The title characters are loosely based on the odious, chaos-making, highly obnoxious escapades of a couple of fictitious Arizona teenagers who regularly showed up in the pages of National Lampoon magazine.
- It’s not really a satire of teen comedies, though that was what the studio wanted. “Altman argues that audiences and National Lampoon wanted Robert Altman’s ‘Porky’s’ and were flummoxed when he delivered a satire of teen schlock instead,” Nathan Rabin notes, writing about the film in the A.V.
- For Altman completetists and fans of movie oddities, it’s worth a look. When I reached out to Chicago Film Society programmer Cameron Worden to talk about the upcoming screening, his reply made me laugh: “So happy to hear you’re interested in writing about this brilliant/terrible/flummoxing film.”
- The movie traffics in misogyny and taunting homophobia. Writing for Reverse Shot, Matt Connolly points out that we, the viewer, “are expected to square our alignment with O.C.
O.C. and Stiggs (1985) Directed by Robert Altman Genres - Comedy , Family , Romance | Sub-Genres - Teen Film | Release Date - Jan 1, 1985 | Run Time - 109 min. | Countries - United States of America | MPAA Rating - R
- Robert Altman
Jul 27, 2015 · Based on a series of articles in National Lampoon magazine, O.C. and Stiggs was ostensibly pitched, produced and marketed under an assumption of it as a conventionally entertaining teen sex comedy made to build off the subgenre’s success in the early Eighties.
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O.C. and Stiggs is a 1987 American teen comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters that were originally featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon magazine. The film stars Daniel H. Jenkins and Neill Barry as the title characters.
