Fast Food (1989)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1989
Running Times: 92 mins
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Company: Double Helix Films
Executive in Charge of Production: S. Bryan Hickox
Executive Producers: Krishna Shah, Jerry Silva
Producers: Michael A. Simpson, Stan Wakefield
Line Producer: Robert F. Phillips
Associate Producer: Phil Walden
Unit Production Manager: Robert F. Phillips

SCRIPT
Script: Clark Brandon, Lanny Horn
Story: Scott B. Sowers

DIRECTION
Director: Michael A. Simpson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Bill Mills

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: John David Allen

MUSIC
Music: Iris Gillon

SOUND
Dialogue Editor: Amy Carey

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Shad Leach
Set Decorator: Julie Malm

MISCELLANEOUS
Location Auditor: William D. Phillips

LOCATIONS
Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Georgia, USA

CAST
Clark Brandon (Auggie)
Randal Patrick (Drew)
Tracy Griffith (Samantha)
Michael J. Pollard (Bud)
Lanny Horn (Calvin)
Jim Varney (Wrangler Bob)
Blake Clark (E.G. McCormick)
Traci Lords (Dixie Love)
Pamela Springsteen (Mary Beth Bensen)
Randi Layne (Alexandra Lowell)
Kevin McCarthy (Judge Reinholte)
J. Don Ferguson (Dean Witler)
Terry Hobbs (Donald Frump III)
Amy Bryson (Sheryl)
Kathleen Webster (Wendy)
Julie Ridley (Dr Duran)
Paige Conner (Tracy)
Tom Key (Skinner)
Bruce Evers (Agent Dikworth)
Benji Wilhoite (Sonny)
Walter Franks III (Joey)
Tina Goetze (Margie)
Chris Edmonds (Billy Showboat)
Ralph Pruitt Vaughn (Artimus)
Muriel Moore (Wrangler Bobs Mama)
Ron Culbreth (comercial director)
Jerry Campbell (cowboy with indigestion)
Deborah Atkinson (buxom blonde in car)
Victor Varnedoe, Peter Stroud, David L. Allen, Hoddy Ridarick (uncredited) (party band)
Shelia Williamson (land shark victim)
Carlos Allen (party DJ)
Vickie Fiorentino, David Thibodeau (party bartenders)
Tom Atwater, Thomas Jackson, Ben Kaya, Joe Hartley, Ned Lukens (federal agents)
Kristin Harrison (little girl with handouts)
Thomas Merdis (sign workman)
Paul Parks (sign workman)
Don Dalton (limo driver)
Daryl A. Math, Eric Axley, Emmanuel Platanis (sleeping males in lab)
Mary Jo Basile (court reporter)
Harold A. Miller III (bailiff)
Dave Straub (obnoxious news reporter)
Stan Wakefield, Jim Basile, Scott B. Sowers, Gene Wakefield (cowboy in commercial)

PLOT SUMMARY

Auggie is desperate to make it big and his latest bright idea is to turn his cousin's garage into a burger restaurant. Together, they develop a special sauce which has potent aphrodisiac properties which, inevitably, makes them very popular. But it also makes them a powerful enemy in the shape of Wrangler Bob, the king of fast food...

Germany
Video Distributor: Ascot Video

USA
Video Distributor: Fries Entertainment

USA
Rating: PG-13

TIMELINE

1989
April
28: USA – theatrical release

Limba, Limba, Lambada - West German title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Hollywood Reporter vol.305 no.29 (20 December 1988) p.24 (USA)
note

Hollywood Reporter vol.307 no.43 (5 June 1989) pp.4, 14 (USA)
review

Sight and Sound vol.2 no.1 (May 1992) p.67 (UK)
note

Variety 3 May 1989 p.17 (USA)
credits, review

aphrodisiacs, fast food, hamburgers, restaurants

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008