The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a 1987 American live action film adaptation of the then-popular children's trading cards series of the same name produced, directed, and co-written by Rod Amateau. It is the last film to be directed by Amateau. The cards were a parody of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and each card featured a character that typically had a gross habit, abnormality, or suffered a terrible fate. The film depicted seven of the Garbage Pail Kids (played by dwarf actors in animatronic costumes) interacting with society and befriending a regular boy. The film was universally panned, and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It was a box office bomb, earning only $1.6 million on a $1 million budget.

Year:
1987
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Dodger:
[starting work unloading a crate] Do you sell much of this stuff? We've only had two customers and they didn't buy anything.

Captain Manzini:
Patience is a bitter vine, dear Dodger, but it bears sweet fruit.

Dodger:
Huh?

Captain Manzini:
That's from the Greek. It loses a little something in translation. Now, let's add a little sparkle to our merchandise. [hands Dodger a feather duster] Funny people should call this junk, isn't it? When every piece is a diary of the human spirit. [holds book, looks at inside cover] Take this, for instance. "To my darling Mary, from Herbert." This is more than a book. It's a testimony to love.

Dodger:
[holds up teddy bear] And this?

Captain Manzini:
Ah, did the child who slept with this grow up to shake the world?

Dodger:
[hands Manzini a fold-out fan] Tell me about this, Captain Manzini

Captain Manzini:
Ah, an early form of air conditioning. [waves folded-out fan in Dodger's face] Also, a tool of romance. It could beckon... [holds fan up to own face and waves toward it]... or rebuff. [folds up fan, taps Dodger on the shoulder with it]

Dodger:
Did you ever get beckoned?

Captain Manzini:
Yes. I also got rebuffed. But like me, this is a relic from a simpler age, when good and bad was black-and-white. And a man could settle all his differences with one of these. [holds up fencing sword, hands it to Dodger] Then some damn fool invented gunpowder, and a bigger damn fool split the atom. That's when I decided to leave mankind to it's folly and retire here. Into this world of memories


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