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Name: High Anxiety
Released: 1978-2-1
Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

High Anxiety

PG
1h 34m
1978

73%

age 12+

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Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman join writer-director-co-star comedy genius Mel Brooks in this hilarious homage to Hitchcock. After a Harvard psychiatrist (Brooks) takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, he realizes his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. And when he winds up accused of the crime, he gets a serious case of High Anxiety.

Director:

Mel Brooks

Producer:

Mel Brooks

Writer:

Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson

Cast:

Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

73%

Critics Consensus: Uneven but hilarious when it hits, this spoof of Hitchcock movies is a minor classic in the Mel Brooks canon.

Reviews

Nashville Scene

Jason Shawhan

Mel Brooks, during his peak years, never met a genre he couldn't wrestle to the ground. And High Anxiety, his 1977 tribute to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, is a masterpiece of characterization, design and execution.

More than an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, High Anxiety is a copycat. [Full Review in Spanish]

[VIDEO ESSAY] Mel Brooks's flair for comic riffing against a stylized background of plot devices draws on a long tradition of spoof movies that date back to the first days of sound cinema.

Very very funny Hitchcock spoof with some adult humor.

June 22, 2017

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Combustible Celluloid

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Most of this stuff isn't particularly funny however, and even though I watched High Anxiety for the first time in 2010, I'm not sure it would have been very funny back in 1977 either.

June 22, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 12+

Common Sense Says

Very very funny Hitchcock spoof with some adult humor.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this spoof on Hitchcock movies contains some adult themes, such as mental illness, bondage, and some violence (a fall from a great height and a gunshot wound). But since it's a spoof, the real Hitchcockian suspense and tension is replaced with silliness.