FREAKED

About This Film

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Festival Year: 1994
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Run Time: 80 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): USA
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English Subtitles: No
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Captions: None

Film Overview

It's a loopy rollercoaster ride to the farthest galaxies of genetic mutilation! It's a gag-filled farce! It's an environmentalist epic! It's a beautiful love story! It's Mr. T. in a dress! Co-directors Stern and Winter have combined a thoroughly deranged script, a fabulous cast and a speed-of-light editing style to make the most outrageous film in recent memory. Ricky Coogan is a celebrity pitchman for evil conoglomerate EES (Everything Except Shoes). When he junkets down to South America to promote Noxon, the company's toxic biogenetic fertilizer, he stumbles into a freak-show circus run by a demented ex-patriot Texan. Before he knows it, he's been turned into a hideous mutant beast-boy, corralled in with other mutants, and guarded by two menacing Rastafarian eyeballs. Ricky has to cook up a plan to escape, return to normal and get back at the incorrigible corporate giant that sent him there. Co-director Alex Winters stars as Ricky, with Randy Quaid, Keanu Reeves, Mr. T, Brooke Sheilds, Morgan Fairchild, Larry “Bud” Melman and Bobcat Goldthwait rounding out the cast.