January 1, 2015, 4:00 p.m. — O.C. & Stiggs (1987)
O.C. Stiggs
1987. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. Screenplay by Ted Mann, Donald Cantrell. With Daniel H. Jenkins, Neill Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Martin Mull, Dennis Hopper, Melvin Van Peebles. Thirty years after The Delinquents, the director revisits teensploitation with a film loosely based on characters from National Lampoon magazine. With male leads lacking the endearing chemistry of Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland in MASH, a project with comparatively irreverent and raucous situations, the film earns its place in the Altman canon as a meditation on distinctly American landscapes of wealth and consumption. 109 min.
