OC and Stiggs is a 1987 American teen comedy film
OC and Stiggs was directed by Robert Altman and was based on a stories about the two characters that were published in the now defunct National Lampoon magazine. In the lead roles are Tony award winning, Daniel H Jenkins and Neil Barry (who played Jack Marshall in the series Crossing Jordan). The cast of this movie also includes Jane Curtain (Saturday Night Live), Tina Louise (Giligan’s Island), and Jon Cryer (Pretty in Pink). It’s a movie which was shot in 1983 and ready to hit theaters by 1985, but probably shelved for the release of National Lampoon’s European Vacation, until 1987. This later release made the film overshadowed by big budget flicks and sequels to earlier popular titles.
Oliver Cromwell Oglivie or O.C., as he called by his friends, and Mark Stiggs are two mischief high school students in Phoenix, Arizona. They see view suburban consumerism as vulgar and omnipresent, so they rebel by spending their days slacking off and committing pranks, often criminal, against the Schwab family, who they view as their enemies. Husband and father, Randal Schwab, is wealthy owner of the insurance company that’s responsible for the involuntary commitment of O.C.’s grandfather into a group home. With a personality that can only be described as a cartoonish character of an extreme social conservative, Randall is both greedy and dumb.
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The rest of the Schwab family is just as comical: Wife and mother, Elinore (Jane Curtain) is a chronic alcoholic that literally tries to be drunk 24 hours of the day. Daughter Lenore has a very complicated relationship with Randall’s business partner Frank Tang. Meanwhile Frank’s son, junior is immature and emotionally stunted. OC and Stiggs is movie that has no hesitation parading every day people to a ludicrous extreme. Think Beavis and Butthead crossed with Ferris Bueller.
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