O.C. & Stiggs (1985)

Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Jon Cryer ... see more  , Ray Walston , Dennis Hopper , Louis Nye , Tina Louise , Martin Mull , Melvin Van Peebles , Donald May , Carla Borelli , Cynthia Nixon , Caroline Aaron , Dana Anderson , Alan Autry , Margery Bond , Robert Fortier , Tiffany Helm , Lobo , Bob Uecker , Nina Van Pallandt , Greg Wrangler , Dan Ziskie , King Sunny Ade and His African Beats , Danny Darst , Jeannine Ann Cole , Stephanie Elfrink , Tom Flagg , James Gilsenan , Victor J. Ho , Fred Newman , Maurice Orozco , Thomas Hal Phillips , Frank Sprague , Laura Urstein , Louis Enriques , Roy Gunsberg , Richard Thompson , Gary Guthrie , Neill Barry

In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the Natio... read more nal Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry), are a pair of misfit teenagers whose greatest joy in life is making those around them miserable. O.C.'s ancient grandfather (Ray Walston) has just had his insurance cancelled, and when he discovers that suburbanite salesman Randall Schwabb (Paul Dooley) is responsible, O.C. and Stiggs swing into a summer-long campaign to get revenge on Schwabb and his family. While it received some of the most brutally negative reviews of Altman's career, O.C. and Stiggs is worth a quick look for its cast, which includes fellow outcast auteurs Dennis Hopper and Melvin Van Peebles, comics Louis Nye and Jane Curtain, the one-time glamour girl of the Clifford Irving scandal Nina Van Pallandt, and Thomas Hal Phillips, reprising his role as Hal Phillip Walker from Nashville. World music superstars King Sunny Ade and his African Beats appear and provide the musical score. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi