Silt: Howard Hesseman

Tunnelvision

A federal committee reviews the programming of an immensely popular and uncensored network from 1985, including news segments, variety shows, scripted series, public service announcements, and commercials. A committee investigating TV’s first uncensored network examines a typical day’s programming, which

Doctor Detroit

Clifford Skridlow teaches at a small Chicago college run by his father. Conned into managing four prostitutes by their pimp, who skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom, Clifford draws on his course in medieval literature in

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

After a plane crash, killer tarantulas escape from the cargo, threatening orange groves and scaring the crop out of the locals in this arachnorama. An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas

Big Bus, The

The ultimate disaster movie parody. A nuclear powered bus is going non-stop from New York City, New York to Denver, Colorado, and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. When

Jackson County Jail

This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York. Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have

Rubin and Ed

A real-estate salesman (Howard Hesseman) and a hippie (Crispin Glover) hit the road on a mission to bury a frozen cat in the desert. Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest

Private Lessons

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur’s blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love. Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who

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