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4.2/10
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A pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.A pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.A pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 11 nominations
Caitlyn Jenner
- Ron White
- (as Bruce Jenner)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaChannel Nine, a national television station in Australia, shows this film every New Year's Eve.
- GoofsIn Sam's apartment, Jack's bottle of Dr. Pepper turns into a can in the next room.
- Quotes
Jack Morell: Anyone who could swallow two Snowballs and a Ding Dong shouldn't have any trouble with pride.
- Alternate versionsABC edited 21 minutes from this film (including the "I Love You To Death" number) to fit the time slot for its 1984 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Magic Night (1980)
- SoundtracksCan't Stop the Music
Music by Jacques Morali
Lyrics by Henri Belolo, Phil Hurtt, and Peter Whitehead (as Beauris Whitehead)
Performed by The Village People
Featured review
can't stop the music but give it your best shot
There is no doubt this film is a joy to watch. The reasons for this may vary from viewer to viewer, but chief among them for me is the sheer, exuberant awfulness of it. How could you not enjoy seeing Bruce Jenner metamorphose from button-down business type to overage crop-topped de-facto podium dancer? And him apparently unaware of how odd he looks in it? Any film that has a gravel-voiced Tammy Grimes poncing around in outfits rejected by Phyllis Diller as being too much can't be all bad. Among so many highlights - the 'I Love You To Death' sequence, where David Hodo understandably runs away from a bevy of carnivorous performance artists in red satin pillowcases (which raises the point: how come no-one on-screen mentions the word 'gay' when everything everyone does all the time in this film screams the word? Take for instance the walrus-moustached Village Person who, white-knuckled before the Big Show whimpers 'Leathermen don't get nervous', eliciting the catty aside from passing Construction Worker 'Oh yes they do'). Steve Guttenberg recovered from this false start to make the seminal Police Academy saga, and the Village People did what they do best for a few more years. A smash hit in Australia (and, I think, Iceland), this overlooked film deserves a reappraisal.
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- Jamie-58
- May 16, 1999
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Discoland
- Filming locations
- Glendale, California, USA(YMCA scenes)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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