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Cry Uncle R Released Aug 17, 1971 1h 27m Comedy List Reviews 64% 500+ Ratings Audience Score A sloppy private eye (Allen Garfield) and a woman (Madeleine Le Roux) help a rich client caught on ...
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Cry Uncle! Cry Uncle!, released in the UK as Super Dick (theatrical title) and American Oddballs (video title), is a 1971 American film in the Troma Entertainment library. It is directed by John G. Avildsen and stars Allen Garfield. The story, based on the Michael Brett novel Lie a Little, Die a Little, follows the misadventures of a slobbish ...
- David Jay Disick
- Harper MacKay
- August 17, 1971
- Allen Garfield, Madeleine Le Roux, Devin Goldenberg
On a $106,000 budget, the film grossed over $19 million and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. While working on Joe, Avildsen became friends with a young college graduate named Lloyd Kaufman, who was getting his start. They decided to start working on a film based on Michael Brett’s novel Lie a Little, Die a Little.
Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Review by Burrows ★★★½ 2. A surprising fun romp from John G. Avildsen and delivered courtesy of Troma films (with Lloyd Kaufman himself appearing in a cameo). It's sort of hilarious at times--a detective story that feels like it was co-written by Hustler and National Lampoon magazines. We've also got one of Paul Sorvino's first screen roles.
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- 15th Street Films
- John G. Avildsen
Cry Uncle!, based on the Michael Brett novel, "Lie a Little, Die a Little", follows the misadventures of a fat, hairy slob of a private eye named Jake Masters, who is hired to clear up a phony murder rap. The NYPD is hunting for an eccentric millionaire, Jason Dominic, in connection with the brutal murder of a cocktail waitress named Lucille ...
Sep 10, 2012 · A bizarre soft-core comedy-thriller, its frantically parodic sexual anarchism is of a pretty reactionary species, and even the guilty guffaws sometimes obstinately refuse to come; though Garfield ...
