Americathon

Americathon

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  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Neal Israel
  • Cast(s): John Ritter, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Chief Dan George, Richard Schaal See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 26min
  • Music: Tom Scott
  • Award(s): Stinker 1979 (Won)
    Stinker 1979 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Eternity, People We Meet on Vacation
  • Story:
    In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
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STORY

Story
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.

AWARDS

Won
Stinker Award

Worst Fake Accent Female | 1979 | Zane

Nominations
Stinker Award

Worst Supporting Actress | 1979 | Zane

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

As part of the promotion for this film's release in 1979, Ted Coombs traveled on roller-skates across the USA for a total of 5,193 miles, setting a world record. He is now a technology author, futurist, artist, and scientist.

The film takes place in 1998.

Dorothy Stratten appears in an uncredited role wearing a Playboy Bunny style costume in the scene where Roy Budnitz donates blood.

Film debut of Zelda Rubinstein, Dorothy Stratten and Elizabeth Carder.

When Mouling Jackson is performing with her band on stage during the telethon, in the background on her set is a huge poster of the face of a Chinese man, wearing a Mao era cap with a red star, yelling. That poster is of actor Burt Kwouk as Chinese Chairman Peng and was a left over from the set of the 1968 Anthony Quinn movie "The Shoes of a Fisherman"

Popular Dialogues

"[opening sequence; two dinosaurs fighting] Jimmy Carter: What you're looking at is downtown Pittsburgh, one million B.C. Those two big guys are fighting for a parking space. This is where our story begins. If they could have just learned to live together like decent human beings, they'd still be around and there never would have been an energy crisis. But they died out, and what was left of them turned into fossil fuel... Oil. See, it's not cute when eleven tons gets cranky. Their problem was they were all teeth and no brain... [Shot of President Jimmy Carter] Narrator: ...which brings us to this guy. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States when everybody started to notice we were running out of dead dinosaurs. No more gas to run our cars. Fights at the pump. People getting nozzle-whipped. So what was his solution? He made a speech. Jimmy Carter: The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us. But it will, if we do not act quickly. Narrator: We didn't. When America finally ran out of gas, an angry mob broke into the White House and lynched him. Along with three or four of his snottier cabinet members."

"Narrator: Everyone all across the country was watching the telethon. From what was left of New York, to the first all-gay state, North Dakota. All eyes were glued to their sets... [shot of men at stand-up urinals watching television] Narrator: ...which in some cases, ruined a lot of good shoes."