Loose Ends (1986) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 5, 1986

Original Title:
Loose Ends

Alternate Titles:
Screwball Academy

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Rose & Ruby Productions

Production Countries:
Canada

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 88

This time the lunatics have taken over the academy!

When the zealous followers of the Church of the Divine Light collide with the heathen filmmakers heaven help those caught in the middle! Bishop Wally, the cult's corrupt founder, must liquidate his assets or face the wrath of the IRS, unaware that his too-slick tax advisor Lodz Kuckoff has unwittingly set the stage for calamity. Kuckoff promises a filmmaker, Liberty Jean, that he'll secure the million dollars she needs to make her dream project, an expose on sex in advertising. She reluctantly agrees, even though part of the deal includes having to cast the financier's curvaceous, but obnoxiously untalented girlfriend LIta as the star. Kuckoff, realizing the terrible mistake he's made, hires the neighborhood thugs to sabotage the picture. However, before they can hit full stride, the Bishop arrives and declares his own holy war. The movie's set, a gigantic birthday cake, becomes the battleground for one of the most uproarious brawls ever.

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Additional Music:
Brian Bell

Art Direction:
Roy Smith

Assistant Art Director:
Stephen Surjik

Assistant Hairstylist:
Kenneth MacLean

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Jane Meade
Nancy Howe

Assistant Sound Editor:
David Templeton

Boom Operator:
Tim Roberts

Camera Operator:
Brenton Spencer

Choreographer:
Vera Mazzeo

Continuity:
Colleen Skidmore
Mimi Wolch

Costume Designer:
Trysha Bakker

Director:
John Blanchard

Director of Photography:
Ludek Bogner

Editor:
Mairin Wilkinson
Michael Robison
Gary Zubeck

Extras Casting:
Simon Clery

First Assistant Camera:
Joel Ransom

First Assistant Director:
David McAree
Stephen Reynolds

Focus Puller:
Christophe Bonnière

Hairstylist:
Roger Dalgliesh

Makeup Artist:
Linda Preston

Original Music Composer:
Charles Barnett

Producer:
David Mitchell
Damian Lee

Production Coordinator:
Nancy Wilson
Melody Comrie

Production Manager:
Sean Ryerson

Screenplay:
Charles Dennis
David Mitchell
Michael Paseornek

Second Assistant Camera:
Gary Kennedy

Second Assistant Director:
Roman Buchok
Dennis Chapman

Second Unit Director:
David Mitchell

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Curtis Peterson

Second Unit First Assistant Director:
Ray Sager

Sound Editor:
Al Streeter

Sound Mixer:
Nolan Roberts

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Mike Hoogenboom
Tony Van den Akker

Stunt Coordinator:
Dwayne McLean

Stunts:
Shane Cardwell
Richard Forsayeth
Leslie Munro
Terry McGauin

Third Assistant Director:
Woody Sid

Wardrobe Assistant:
Chris J. O'Neil
Patti Meade

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