The Stupids
The Stupids is a 1996 adventure comedy film starring Tom Arnold and directed by John Landis. It is based on The Stupids, characters from a series of books written by Harry Allard and illustrated by James Marshall.
Plot
Stanley and Joan Stupid are convinced they are victims of a conspiracy that steals their garbage every week. In an attempt to uncover this, Stanley follows the garbage truck to the city dump, where he stumbles across Colonel Neidermeyer, who is selling contraband weaponry to a group of terrorists. He believes Stanley to be a secret agent who has uncovered their operation and orders him assassinated, and after several attempts on his life result in him unintentionally killing his would-be assassins, he narrowly escapes a car bomb and is presumed dead by Neidermeyer.
Cast
- Alex McKenna
- Atom Egoyan
- Bob Keeshan
- Bug Hall
- Christopher Lee
- Costa-Gavras
- David Cronenberg
- Frankie Faison
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Gurinder Chadha
- Harvey Atkin
- Jenny McCarthy
- Jeremy Ratchford
- Jessica Lundy
- Kevin Conway
- Mark Metcalf
- Matt Keeslar
- Max Landis
- Mick Garris
- Norman Jewison
- Robert Wise
- Sherry Miller
- Tom Arnold
More details
| author | Brent Forrester |
|---|---|
| director | John Landis |
| editor | Dale Beldin |
| genre | adventure comedy |
| keywords | arms deal army base arrest car bomb chinese restaurant city dump conspiracy theory end garbage truck held hostage id kidnap kill knock out last job overactive imagination phone book presumed dead return home secret agent talk show television studio wait |
| musicBy | Christopher Stone |
| producer | Leslie Belzberg |
| productionCompany | Savoy Pictures |
| publisher | New Line Cinema Rank Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | Toronto |