Mother, Jugs & Speed PG
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DVD Details
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 9, 2004
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch & Harvey Keitel | |
Performer: | Allen Garfield, Dick Butkus, L.Q. Jones, Larry Hagman, Valerie Curtin, Severn Darden, Bill Henderson, Michael McManus & Bruce Davison | |
Directed by | Peter Yates | |
Edited by | Frank P. Keller | |
Screenplay by | Tom Mankiewicz | |
Produced by | Peter Yates & Tom Mankiewicz | |
Director of Photography: | Ralph Woolsey | |
Executive Production by | Joseph Barbera |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Mother, Jugs and Speed is one of those premises that must have sounded great when the agents were explaining it to the studio, but it comes out as an unhappy cross between MASH and As the World Turns.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A great bad movie from the 1970s.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/4 --
The nightly travails of an ambulance crew stand in for the bigotry, fear, and paranoia of a nation in flux.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 3/5 --
An entirely OK 70s ride, better, perhaps, in retrospect.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
The gags get dull, and the mood turns ugly.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 3/5 --
Raunchy ambulance comedy wavers between jocular fun, misplaced melodrama, and morbid stupidity.
eFilmCritic.com
If you don't go expecting a lot, you might find the film makes for a half-evening's worth of laidback diversion.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel head an all-star cast in this wildly inventive comedy about an offbeat ambulance service that's funny enough to cause its own medical emergency. In a scheme to beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver (Cosby), an office secretary paramedic (Welch) and a suspended cop (Keitel) resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're one crazy crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!
Product Description:
This highly irreverent and satirical black comedy recounts the daily tragedies of a group of ambulance drivers at a run-down company in 1970s California. A smart-aleck blend of television's TAXI and M*A*S*H and precursor to BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, the film is set at the F&B ambulance company, which is the home away from home for a motley crew of drivers obsessed with bringing in more patients than their competition while working their respective shifts. Bill Cosby stars as Mother, the wisecracking leader who plays by his own rules and drives with his loyal partner, Leroy (Bruce Davison). Together, Mother and Leroy encounter a wide variety of adventures as they race around town looking for calamity and disaster. Jugs (Raquel Welch) is the aptly nicknamed buxom secretary who consistently dismisses the advances of the lewd and crude drivers while secretly studying to become the first female driver at F&B--until she meets Speed (Harvey Keitel), an ex-cop and Vietnam vet under investigation for drug charges who joins the F&B crew. As the company teeters near bankruptcy and disaster strikes, the drivers must band together to keep their struggling company afloat. Shot in an episodic style that combines wildly raunchy humor with gritty and dark tragedy, this wild ride is a highly original fast-paced romp. MOTHER, JUGS AND SPEED also features Larry Hagman as a sex-obsessed driver and the great Allen Garfield as Harry Fishbine, the sleazy owner of the company.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,514
- UPC: 024543113232
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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