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S.O.B. (1981)

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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 4, 2002

MPAA Rating
R

Running Time
2 hours, 2 minutes

Country USA

Studio Arista Films, Lorimar Productions, Paramount

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Other Titles
• S.O.B.
• S.O.B. - Hollywoods letzter Heuler (1982)



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Genre: Comedy, Racy, Showbiz, Satire, Hollywood

Tagline: Once upon a time in Hollywood...

Plot: Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the slide because of the colossal failure of his $30 million G-rated musical. In desperation he hatches a plan to revive his career: Buy back the film and remake it, adding new pornographic footage to render it a more marketable box-office commodity. He believes that the key to the film's success will be the willingness of his ex-wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), to dispense with her sweetly wholesome image and bare her breasts onscreen. To reach his goal, Farmer has to wade through a river of egomanical producers, wildly pretentious directors, knife-wielding industry gossips, sneaky editors, and even a dissipated doctor--or quack, as he prefers to be called. A broad, hugely entertaining attack on the hand that fed him, Edwards's film is among his best, with hilarious scenery chewing by William Holden (in his final film appearance), Loretta Swit, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, and no other Roberts among its seeming cast of

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One of the funniest movies ever, despite the slow dragging climax to the grand finale.153 months ago

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 Directed by
Blake Edwards
Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria
 Written by
Blake Edwards
City Heat, Soldier in the Rain, The Notorious Landlady
 Cast
Julie Andrews
Shrek 2, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins
William Holden
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sunset Blvd., The Wild Bunch
Marisa Berenson
Barry Lyndon, Cabaret, Death in Venice
Larry Hagman
Primary Colors, Nixon, Fail-Safe
Robert Loggia
Independence Day, Scarface, Lost Highway
Robert Vaughn
The Magnificent Seven, BASEketball, Superman III
Rosanna Arquette
Pulp Fiction, The Whole Nine Yards, The Big Blue
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 Music By
Henry Mancini
Touch of Evil, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade



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