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Gas

  • 1981
  • R
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
3.2/10
414
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Gas (1981)
Comedy

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 ... Read allChaos 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.

  • Director
    • Les Rose
  • Writers
    • Susan Scranton
    • Dick Wolf
  • Stars
    • Susan Anspach
    • Howie Mandel
    • Sterling Hayden
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.2/10
    414
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Les Rose
    • Writers
      • Susan Scranton
      • Dick Wolf
    • Stars
      • Susan Anspach
      • Howie Mandel
      • Sterling Hayden
    • 17User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Susan Anspach
    Susan Anspach
    • Jane Beardsley
    Howie Mandel
    Howie Mandel
    • Matt Lloyd
    Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden
    • Duke Stuyvesant
    Helen Shaver
    Helen Shaver
    • Rhonda
    Sandee Currie
    Sandee Currie
    • Sarah Marshal
    Peter Aykroyd
    Peter Aykroyd
    • Ed Marshal
    Keith Knight
    Keith Knight
    • Ira
    Alf Humphreys
    Alf Humphreys
    • Lou Picard
    Philip Akin
    • Lincoln Jones
    Michael Hogan
    Michael Hogan
    • Guido Vespucci
    Paul Kelman
    • Nino Vespucci
    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Nick the Noz
    Dustin Waln
    • Earl Stuyvesant
    Vlasta Vrana
    Vlasta Vrana
    • Baron Stuyvesant
    Harvey Chao
    • Lee Kwan
    Briane Nasimok
    • Fawsi Ibn Fawsi
    Violet Bussey
    • Mrs. Botts
    • (as Violet Bussy)
    Vincent Marino
    • Uncle Leo
    • Director
      • Les Rose
    • Writers
      • Susan Scranton
      • Dick Wolf
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    1jimshonk

    Gas

    I am so happy for the internet because it provides an opportunity to comment about the absolutely worse movie I've ever seen. When I saw GAS I knew it was bad. Over the past 25 years I've watched a number of bad films, but nothing impresses like this.

    This incoherent waste of someone's ability to raise funds for a "movie project" is meaningful only for those who can appreciate the irony of the highest level of self-indulgence that fund raisers might provide. If you are curious as to how low someone might sink in the business of film making - watch this film.

    Maybe you're thinking - oh this would be fun to watch with a group of alcohol or drug enhanced friends. Promise me to write the website when you do, because I truly believe you will say - "Drunk as I was, this movie stunk".

    And Don Sutherland must have been on a fairly serious bender.
    2nettiegurl

    So bad it's just bad

    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.
    1dcurtis-5

    My vote for the worst movie I've ever seen

    Where do I start? Is it the horrible writing? The atrocious acting? The unbelievably lame plot? If you want bad, this is your movie. I had the misfortune to be in the crowd of about 50 movie-goers when this assault on decently was released. By the end, about 10 people were left. There were no laughs. Unfortunately, unlike the classics such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, this one was not even schlocky enough to make it funny. Just a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad movie.
    1RealLiveClaude

    Annoying, boring, all qualifications bad accepted here !

    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...
    1Beebolini

    Ugh - I need an antacid after this one!

    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!

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    • Trivia
      In an interview with the New York Times in 1981, Donald Sutherland claimed he took the role because he " was broke, and needed the money ".
    • Goofs
      Toward 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.
    • Quotes

      Ira: [Trying to figure out how to drive a stick-shift car] P, R, N, D, L... Yes, L for Leave!

    • Connections
      Featured in Vintage Video: Gas (1981) (2022)
    • Soundtracks
      Back in the USA
      by Chuck Berry

      © 1969 ABC Music Corp.

      Performed by Linda Ronstadt

      Courtesy of Asylum Records

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 24, 1981 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A tutto gas
    • Filming locations
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)
      • Davis-Panzer Productions
      • Filmplan International
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • CA$6,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,869,425
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,869,425
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 34m(94 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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