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Featuring:
Matthew Causey, Timothy Carhart, Jerry Jones
Written by:
David Beaird
Alan C. Fox
Directed by:
David Beaird
Release Date:
July 18, 1984
Original Title:
The Party Animal
Alternate Titles:
The Party Animal
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: R
Runtime: 78
The Party Animal is a documentary-style comedy about a sex-starved man, Pondo Sinatra, a 26-year-old college student whom everyone agrees is doomed to die a virgin. Desperate to break what seems to be a cosmic curse, he tries ever more bizarre schemes to seduce one the sexy, scantily-clad women who seem to be everywhere, taunting him and enjoying his misery. Despite his best efforts, however, he is rejected everywhere, even at the local cathouse. When Pondo threatens to kill himself, Studley, his ladykilling best friend, tries to help him in his quest to "get him a little", as does Studley's mentor, a wise old janitor named Elbow.
Pondo Sinatra is a college boy with a problem: women will have nothing to do with him. It's not that he was raised on a chicken farm and, literally, came to school on the back of a turnip truck. It's not that he is a virgin and jinxed, and every move he makes around a woman backfires. The problem is that god and heaven have set themselves against Pondo loosing his virginity. That is until Pondo discovers the secret formula to the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world and becomes....... "The Party Animal"!
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Assistant Art Director:
John Taylor
Assistant Hairdresser:
Roberta Royer
Associate Producer:
Terrie Cohen
Charles A. Duncombe Jr.
Boom Operator:
William Grigg
Camera Operator:
Bryan England
Casting:
Jean-Michel Michenaud
John Luessenhop
Color Timer:
Matthew Shatz
Costumer:
Timaree McCormick
Creative Consultant:
Alan Pomeroy
Jamie Horton
Matthew Causey
Jean-Michel Michenaud
Lanier Lafette
John Luessenhop
Director:
David Beaird
Director of Photography:
Bryan England
Editor:
Susan Jenkins
Executive Producer:
Alan C. Fox
First Assistant Camera:
James Rapp
First Assistant Director:
Jean-Michel Michenaud
First Assistant Editor:
David Beatty
Foley Artist:
Michael Salvetta
Donald Ciabattari
Makeup & Hair:
Karen Kubeck
Music Consultant:
Steve Smith
Negative Cutter:
Bob Lass
Post Production Supervisor:
Susan Jenkins
Producer:
Mark Israel
Bryan England
Production Manager:
Charles A. Duncombe Jr.
Script Supervisor:
Beth Palmire
Second Assistant Camera:
Robert Brian Long
Second Assistant Director:
Marty Schiff
Second Unit Director:
Jean-Michel Michenaud
Sound Mixer:
Brian DeMellier
Paul Schremp
Special Effects:
Peter Mark
Special Effects Makeup Artist:
R. Christopher Biggs
Story:
David Beaird
Alan C. Fox
Supervising Producer:
David Beaird
Unit Production Manager:
Patricia Althouse
Writer:
David Beaird
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