American Raspberry
American Raspberry (also known as Prime Time and Funny America) is a 1977 parody film that lampoons various films of the 1970s, much like The Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon. It was filmed for Warner Brothers with a budget of $30,000 (a copyright to Warners can be seen in the title card for the Prime Time version), but was rejected as being unreleasable. Cannon Pictures later acted as distributor during a brief showing in theaters in 1980.
Plot
American Raspberry tells the story of what happens when some strange unknown sources takes over the air waves and replaces the normal programs with rude, crude, and politically incorrect programming and commercials. The president of the United States (George Furth) demands that something be done about the distasteful programming.
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| author | John Baskin |
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| director | Bradley R. Swirnoff |
| editor | Geoffrey Rowland |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | adolf hitler antisemitic antisemitism austin texas cassette tape charlie's angels diehard famous shooting george furth politically incorrect shoot soylent green transvestism transvestite |
| musicBy | Ken Lauber |
| producer | Marcus Tarbulusl |
| publisher | Cannon Films |
| theme | parody |