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Name: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Released: 2015-9-29
Cast: Sam Firstenberg, David Paulsen, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, Alain Jakubowicz

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

R
1h 46m
2015

92%

Director Mark Hartley takes us on a hilarious thrill ride through the masterworks of Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan, two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. With hair-trigger randomness, these cousins of chaos churned out a breathtaking cavalcade of hits and misses, made movies out of posters, released a sequel before the original film, botched plots, bounced checks and burned careers – and in so doing, changed the way movies were made and marketed.

Director:

Mark Hartley

Producer:

Veronica Fury, Brett Ratner, Nate Bolotin, Todd Brown, Jeff Harrison, Hugh Marks

Writer:

Mark Hartley

Cast:

Sam Firstenberg, David Paulsen, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, Alain Jakubowicz, Itzik Kol, Michael Hartman, Quentin Falk

Special Features

Locked video

Deleted Scenes

27 MIN

Locked video

Cannon Trailers

34 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

92%

Critics Consensus: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films pays tribute to the titular studio with an affectionate look back that's arguably more entertaining than much of Cannon's own B-movie product.

Reviews

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Don Shanahan

Sometimes, the best documentaries are about losers, accidental stardom, hubris, and horrible people.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is essential viewing for those who grew-up in the 1980s, knowing that the Cannon logo meant something 'special'.

If you're like me, you grew up on a steady diet of Cannon Films. That iconic logo showing up before a movie was a sign that you were about to experience something, maybe not necessarily something good, but something to behold certainly.

Electric Boogaloo is a great in-depth look at one of the strangest studios that was not only churning out films, but filling video store shelves, with a brand of insanity or madness that has yet to be seen since.

This is a thorough and respectful documentary - Cannon Films undeniably taught Hollywood a lesson through bad example, but whether they were ahead of their time or shysters is left open.

May 10, 2019

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