Eating Raoul

1982
R
1h 30m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

MA NOTE

Buddy Comedy Dark Comedy Farce Quirky Comedy Comedy Crime

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Director
- Paul Bartel
Writers
- Paul Bartel
- Richard Blackburn
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

9,5 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Paul Bartel
Writers
- Paul Bartel
- Richard Blackburn
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The budget was so low that they could not afford to mock-up an ad printed in a fake newspaper for the Blands' swingers advertisement so production designer Robert Schulenberg instead designed an ad and ran it in the "L.A. Weekly," an alternative newspaper. Unlike the vast number of replies the Blands got in the movie, the real ad attracted only one response.

Gaffes
The black plastic bags, which the dead bodies are stored in, are comically too small and easy to carry.

Citations
Mary: At the store, can you buy a new frying pan? I'm a little squeamish about using the one we use to kill people.

Générique farfelu
There is a credit for "Guest Electrician"

Connexions
Featured in Precious Images (1986)

Bandes originales
Exactly Like You
Music by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Published by Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., Inc.
Performed by Jonathan Beres

Commentaires des utilisateurs82

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Commentaire en vedette

9/10

One of the Funniest Dark Comedies Ever Made

Eating Raoul is so eager to please and never overstays its welcome. Shot for what seems to be $3, it's amazing that the film turns out as nice and polished as it is. Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov play the aptly named Blands. They dream to, one day, start their own eatery, but it seems as if it's just not in the cards for them. After a mix up, they end up accidentally killing a man and, thinking he's a nobody, they take his wallet. At that moment, a brilliant business plan is born and the Blands pose as sexual deviants to lure people to their homes, kill them (with a frying pan) and steal their money. Things get complicated when a young man named Raoul discovers their secret and wants in on their scheme.

The basic concept of Eating Raoul is so damn goofy that it's amazing it works as well as it does, but Bartel and Woronov smartly play everything super straight and it works.

If you consider yourself a dark comedy fan and haven't seen this movie, you need to change that right now.