O.C. and Stiggs

O.C. and Stiggs (1987)

Adventures in upper middle class suburbia.

O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess.

Date of release
1987-07-10
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Robert Altman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $7M
  • Filmed in: Arizona

O.C. and Stiggs is a 1987 American teen comedy film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters that were originally featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon magazine. The film stars Daniel H. Jenkins and Neill Barry as the title characters. Other members of the cast include Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Martin Mull, Dennis Hopper, Ray Walston, Louis Nye, Melvin Van Peebles, Tina Louise, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Cryer, Thomas Hal Phillips and Bob Uecker.

Production

The movie's plot was very loosely based on stories from National Lampoon magazine that were written by Ted Mann and Tod Carroll. O.C. and Stiggs were recurring characters in articles in the magazine, eventually leading up to the entire October 1982 issue being devoted to a fictional first-person account of the story of their summer, "The Utterly Monstrous Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs".

Peter Newman, one of the producers of the film, got interested when he was shown the October '82 issue of National Lampoon (Mann and Carroll had shown up in his office), which he felt was provocative, and his producing partner also agreed, which help get a deal started. The original director in mind after this came together was Mike Nichols, who evidently wanted Eddie Murphy for one of the two leads.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Mann detested the final product (which had test screenings in 1984 that MGM also hated), stating "Altman's movie is not an adaptation of my work. The screenplay I wrote with Tod Carroll was not shot. Carroll took his name off because it was not his work. I chose to leave my name on, on the chance it might do me some good. It did not.

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