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Name: S.O.B.
Released: 1981-11-1
Cast: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Larry Hagman

S.O.B.

R
2h 2m
1981

81%

Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops – and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B. Julie Andrews is a wholesome superstar about to alter her image...radically. Aiding and abetting the madness are William Holden, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, Loretta Swit and more. Dialogue crackles like fat in a fire, gags range from dead-on deadpan to comedic broadsides, insights bristle and sting. Nothing standard here: S.O.B. is extraordinary.

Director:

Blake Edwards

Producer:

Blake Edwards, Tony Adams

Cast:

Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn, Marisa Berenson, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Robert Preston, Loretta Swit, Robert Loggia

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: A sustained blast of unbridled vitriol from writer-director Blake Edwards, S.O.B. is one of the blackest -- and most consistently funny -- Hollywood satires ever put to film.

Reviews

AniMat's Review (YouTube)

Mat Brunet

In this age of studios making stupid money-losing mistakes and increasing amount of box office bombs, S.O.B. is one of the few movies made in Hollywood that isn’t afraid to call out what is wrong with the Hollywood system and its lack of human decency. I

A would-be Jonsonian satire on Hollywood, or Freddie Bartholomew Fair, the film is as misconceived as it is ill-executed.

It is quite clear that Edwards knows exactly what he is talking about, and relishes the opportunity so to do. S.O.B. is his best film since Breakfast At Tiffany's.

...SOB lives up to its title, and like the central character it describes, it's a hot, sticky mess that's hard to scrape off your shoe....

April 18, 2021

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El Pais (Spain)

Jesús Fernández Santos

Aside from a joke and an entertaining scene here and there, the movie lacks humor and repeats itself. [Full Review in Spanish]

August 20, 2019

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