Flicks, also known as Loose Joints, is a 1982 anthology comedy film consisting of a series of comedic segments themed after Saturday afternoon matinées.[4]

Ficks
Directed byPeter Winograd
Written byPeter Winograd
David Hurwitz
Lane Sarasohn
StarringMartin Mull
Production
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Triple Features Productions[2]
Release date
  • May 23, 1987 (1987-05-23)[1]
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[3]

Segments

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No Way, Jose

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A parody of coming attractions where a trailer for a film called No Way, Jose makes lofty promises of an all star cast and extensive location shooting before saying it was too expensive to actually make.

Cat and Mouse at (the) Home

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A parody of Tom and Jerry cartoons, a cartoon cat and mouse reminisce about their careers chasing and beating each other up at a retirement home for cartoon characters while lamenting the diminished quality of modern cartoons which leads them back into their old habits.

News 'R' Us

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A parody of Newsreel filmstrips featuring stories such as the collapse of a spice factory from every employee sneezing at once, Siamese twins being compressed into one single individual, the cartoon duo of Cat and Mouse announcing their retirement, and the sensation of "whacking" (with paddleball toys) takes the world by storm..

Lost Heroes of the Milky Way

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A commander on board a space station deals with small-scale annoyances from mechanical breakdowns and striking staff.

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Phillip Alien. Space Detective

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A space-themed noir segment following an insectoid alien detective

House of the Horny Corpse

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A married couple buys an old Victorian house only to discover it is haunted by a man who mails surgically removed parts of himself to his neighbors.

Cast

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Production

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The idea for the film originated with Peter Winograd who took the concept to Saturday Night Live writers David Hurwitz and Larry Arnstein, and The Groove Tube Lane Sarasohn with whom Winograd routinely played basketball.[2] Following troubled preview screenings, United Film Distributors recut the film without input from Winograd and re-titled it Loose Joints.[3] The animated segment Cat and Mouse at (the) Home was animated by Mark Kausler and directed by Kirk Henderson.[5] The four and a half minute long short took six months to produce, and was made by San Francisco based animation studio Colossal Pictures.[2]

Release

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The film was released on videocassette on May 23, 1987.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b '"Flicks (1981)". tcm.com. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  2. ^ a b c Marshall, W.R. (1981). "Flicks". Cinefantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Counts, Kyle (1982). "Loose Joints". Cinefantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "Flicks (1982)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  5. ^ Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets at Google Books, p. 148
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