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Director
  
Bradley R. Swirnoff

Genres
  
Parody, Comedy

Language
  
English

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Cinematography
  
Matthew F. Leonetti

Duration
  

Country
  
US

American Raspberry (film) movie poster

Writer
  
John Baskin
,
Stephen Feinberg
,
Roger Shulman

Release date
  
1977

Cast
  
Joanna Cassidy
,
Warren Oates
,
Harry Shearer
,
Kinky Friedman
,
George Furth

Similar movies
  
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Tagline
  
The Movie That Grabs TV by the Dials and Won't Let Go!

American Raspberry (also known as Prime Time and Funny America) is a 1977 parody film that lampoons various films of the 1970s, much like The Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon. It was filmed for Warner Brothers with a budget $30,000 (a copyright to Warners can be seen in the title card for the Prime Time version), but was rejected as being unreleasable. Cannon Pictures later acted as distributor during a brief showing in theaters in 1980.

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Plot

American Raspberry tells the story of what happens when some strange unknown sources takes over the air waves and replaces the normal programs with rude, crude, and politically incorrect programming and commercials. The President of the United States (George Furth) demands that something be done about the distasteful programming.

Memorable commercials and TV shows

  • Celebrity Sportsman Presents: The Charles Whitman Invitational; A parody of the famous shooting that took place in Austin, Texas, on August 1, 1966.
  • The Sexual Deviation Telethon; A telethon hosted by a transvestite.
  • Peterson's Dog Food; A dog food commercial, with a Soylent Green twist.
  • Die Tough Battery; A parody of Sears' DieHard batteries that power an execution.
  • Manny's Nymphs; a direct parody of TV series Charlie's Angels.
  • Mamorax Cassette Tape; a commercial with Adolf Hitler's voice on tape with a very antisemitic ending.
  • Stay Down; a parody for a spray that will stop unwanted erections.

    • References

    American Raspberry (film) Wikipedia
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    American Raspberry (film) IMDb American Raspberry (film) themoviedb.org