American Raspberry 1977

director: Brad Swirnoff  


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United States

Alternative Titles

  • Prime Time

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Synopsis

A wickedly satirical send-up of all that's holy in the homogenised world of US family television, where the censor works harder than the producers. The fun starts when a major national network is taken over by an unknown group who makes outrageous and hilarious changes in the programme schedules. By censoring the censor, the new station launches a brand new style of family entertainment that depicts America as disgusting, dirty and decadent. This is too much for the president, who calls out the army in a desperate bid to restore law and order. But it's going to take more to squash this AMERICAN RASPBERRY...

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Available on VHSAvailable on Betamax

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Catalogue Number V1032
Release Series
Release Date July 1982
Duration: 70m 34s
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by Lee James Turnock
Also known as [i]Prime Time, American Raspberry[/i] is another sketch comedy along the lines of the horribly dated [i]Groove Tube[/i] and the gloriously tasteless [i]Kentucky Fried Movie[/i]. It’s not a classic by any means – there are some staggeringly racist moments (a spoof ad for Puerto Rican airlines), some baffling misfires (a parody of [i]Charlie’s Angels[/i] featuring a cast of obese actors should be funny, but it isn’t) and a heavy reliance on bad taste and smut, but Prime Time still manages to rise above its obviously skimpy budget to deliver a few solid politically incorrect laughs. The cast includes Murphy Dunne ([i]the Blues Brothers[/i]), the splendidly named Kinky Friedman and a pre-[i]Spinal Tap[/i] Harry Shearer.