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.
Violet Bussey
- Mrs. Botts
- (as Violet Bussy)
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This Canadian-made crap is my vote for worst film of all time. I noticed that the writer never wrote anything after this -- that is a good thing, obviously Hollywood never beckoned after witnessing this witlessness. The director made a handful of films I never heard of -- fortunately for us, nothing since 1987. Perhaps he's retired and living off of his "Gas" royalties. The plot concerns some nonsense about a fake gas shortage, obviously trying to strike a chord with the U.S.-OPEC based gas shortage problems in the early-mid '70's. Stupid, not the least bit funny. I wonder what the actors were thinking of when they signed on? The same year Donald Sutherland made this he also did "Ordinary People." I wonder if he bothers to list this one on his resume?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Did you know
- TriviaIn an interview with the New York Times in 1981, Donald Sutherland claimed he took the role because he " was broke, and needed the money ".
- GoofsToward 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vintage Video: Gas (1981) (2022)
- SoundtracksBack in the USA
by Chuck Berry
© 1969 ABC Music Corp.
Performed by Linda Ronstadt
Courtesy of Asylum Records
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Box office
- Budget
- CA$6,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,869,425
- Gross worldwide
- $2,869,425
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