Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) : sound, color |
Summary |
A sleeper hit of the early 1980s, Eating Raoul is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a prudish married couple who feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to simultaneously rid themselves of the perverts down the hall and realize their dream of opening a restaurant. A mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence, Eating Raoul marked the end of the sexual revolution with a thwack |
Notes |
Title from title frames |
Credits |
Director of photography, Gary Thieltges ; production designer, Robert Schulenberg ; editor, Alan Toomayan ; original music by Arlon Ober |
Performer |
Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley, Jr |
Event |
Originally produced by 20th Century Fox and Quartet/Films Inc. in 1982 |
Subject |
Cannibalism -- Drama
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Restaurateurs -- Drama
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Marriage -- Drama
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Group sex -- Drama
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Satire.
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Restaurateurs
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Cannibalism
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Group sex
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Marriage
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Satire
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Genre/Form |
Feature films
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Drama
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Short films
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Short films.
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Feature films.
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Courts métrages.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Woronov, Mary, actor.
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Bartel, Paul, actor, director, screenwriter.
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Blackburn, Richard (Screenwriter), screenwriter, actor.
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Kimmel, Anne, producer.
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Thieltges, Gary, cinematographer.
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Schulenberg, Robert, designer
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Toomayan, Alan, film editor
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Ober, Arlon, composer.
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Beltran, Robert, 1953- actor.
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Begley, Ed, Jr., actor.
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company.
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Quartet (Firm), production company.
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Films Incorporated, production company.
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