It's big studio blockbuster comedy this week on Adjust Your Tracking. Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker were the most successful comedy directors/writers in the 1980s, with Airplane!, Police Squad, and Top Secret they made a name for themselves for creating wild fast slapstick spoof films that resonated with audiences. The would make one last film as a trio and they swapped spoof for much more standard farce in a film they did not write. Ruthless People stars Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, the story involves a couple who kidnap their ex-boss's wife to get revenge and extort money from him. However, they soon realize he was planning to kill her himself and does not want her back. Meanwhile, the boss's mistress is trying to blackmail him assuming that he did carry out his planned murder.
We also talk some new releases with Black Widow, Fear Street Series, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
All this and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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One Magic Christmas (1985)
Them! (1954) (w/ James Raynor)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Rashomon (1950)
70s Trackie Awards
Superman (1978)
Phantom Tollbooth (1970) (Chuck Jones)
Time After Time (1979)
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
I Spit on your Grave (1978) (w/ James Raynor)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) (w/ James Raynor)
Sorcerer (1977) (w/ Paul Nadin)
F for Fake (1973) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
Mikey and Nicky (1976) (w/ Natalie Gardner)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
Badlands (1973)
Fist of Fury (1972) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
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