Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaChaos besets a town when the populace hears of a gas shortage. Reporter Jane Beardsley investigates stolen milk causing milk prices and gas prices to rise. Others get involved, leading to a ... Leggi tuttoChaos besets a town when the populace hears of a gas shortage. Reporter Jane Beardsley investigates stolen milk causing milk prices and gas prices to rise. Others get involved, leading to a big car chase. Howie Mandel's screen debut.Chaos besets a town when the populace hears of a gas shortage. Reporter Jane Beardsley investigates stolen milk causing milk prices and gas prices to rise. Others get involved, leading to a big car chase. Howie Mandel's screen debut.
Violet Bussey
- Mrs. Botts
- (as Violet Bussy)
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Unbelievable bad acting, writing, production, and director. I've seen B movies that were Oscar winners compared to this train wreck. No funny moments whatsoever. Just lame one-liners within a horrible script. The director should have been shot.
The writing is cheap and horrible, the jokes are pathetic, and I'll be nice about my opinion of the acting by not saying anything...
I saw this movie broadcast on television, and I found myself actually looking FORWARD to the commercials! The only thing I found half interesting was seeing Peter Aykroyd in a movie - one of the few he has made. His voice is almost identical to his brother Dan's voice.
Please spare yourself the trouble. This one isn't even worth watching as a joke. It makes me cringe at being Canadian, as it's a Canadian movie!
I saw this movie broadcast on television, and I found myself actually looking FORWARD to the commercials! The only thing I found half interesting was seeing Peter Aykroyd in a movie - one of the few he has made. His voice is almost identical to his brother Dan's voice.
Please spare yourself the trouble. This one isn't even worth watching as a joke. It makes me cringe at being Canadian, as it's a Canadian movie!
Although made in 1981, you'll think you've made your way back to the early seventies watching this stinker, and not in a good retro kinda sense either.If you are an adolescent male, and up to wasting 90 minutes of your life listening to bad jokes, this could be the one. There's tons of gratuitous sexual references (nothing ever happens), really bad writing, a boring car chase, and a performance by Donald Sutherland that even his mom would cringe at. To be avoided, this movie bites.
I was lucky enough to see the set of this picture in Montreal(by the way, most of it are torn down these days, among these: the two gas stations became Medical Clinics, the viaduct on Mountain Street is thorn down and now has housing, and the climatic end scene shot on the old LaSalle Coke fields is now a shopping mall...). The story seems promising, but when I saw the end result... Disappointing !
A boring, badly acted movie, very unpredictable, full of sexist and racist overtones (even Arabs are trashed here !) and one of the most tiresome and annoying car pursuits ever shot...
I pity everyone who participated in this. Even Donald Sutherland has done better... And the others ???? Gone with the torn sets and buildings which served for this "running on empty" turkey...
Another sad attempt to pass Montreal as an American city... Noticeable cardboard English signs over French ones and the false "Health Spa" set next to the Gas Station and that stupid statue... Producers learned from then....
A movie to forget...
A boring, badly acted movie, very unpredictable, full of sexist and racist overtones (even Arabs are trashed here !) and one of the most tiresome and annoying car pursuits ever shot...
I pity everyone who participated in this. Even Donald Sutherland has done better... And the others ???? Gone with the torn sets and buildings which served for this "running on empty" turkey...
Another sad attempt to pass Montreal as an American city... Noticeable cardboard English signs over French ones and the false "Health Spa" set next to the Gas Station and that stupid statue... Producers learned from then....
A movie to forget...
Wacky send-up of the gas crisis. This stillborn political farce centers around milk prices driving up gasoline prices. Just close your eyes and I'm sure you can predict the idiotic Arab gags.
The "conscience" of the movie is supposed to be Donald Sutherland as "Nozzle Nick" a helicopter traffic reporter. His 10 minutes on screen negate every good thing Mr. Sutherland has ever done.
Everyone who appeared in this one is a bad, bad person.
The "conscience" of the movie is supposed to be Donald Sutherland as "Nozzle Nick" a helicopter traffic reporter. His 10 minutes on screen negate every good thing Mr. Sutherland has ever done.
Everyone who appeared in this one is a bad, bad person.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizIn an interview with the New York Times in 1981, Donald Sutherland claimed he took the role because he " was broke, and needed the money ".
- BlooperToward the film's conclusion, Bobby (Carl Marotte) thinks he spots the van of Rhonda (Helen Shaver), the object of his lust. He calls out for her, and the scene switches to her van being driven down the street. A few seconds later, Bobby is still pursuing the van and calling for Rhonda, but he now has lipstick kisses all over his face. The scene then switches, and comes back to van-chasing Bobby, who now sports no lipstick kisses.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Vintage Video: Gas (1981) (2022)
- Colonne sonoreBack in the USA
by Chuck Berry
© 1969 ABC Music Corp.
Performed by Linda Ronstadt
Courtesy of Asylum Records
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- Budget
- 6.500.000 CA$ (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 2.869.425 USD
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
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