Product Description

Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 09/27/2005

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98176 in DVD
• Brand: Image Entertainment
• Released on: 2005-09-27
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 82 minutes

Customer Reviews

Lame, but not a complete waste of time
Ron Douglas (Joe Alaskey) is an overweight loser who has just been dumped, in the middle of his wedding, no less, by his fiancé. In an attempt to recover from this situation, he goes on a holiday to Lake Tahoe, where he meets Cynthia Mitchell (Donna Dixon), a beautiful blonde woman who appears to fall in love with him and who invites him home for Christmas dinner. What she doesn't tell Ron is that her intention is for him to be the dinner.

"The Lucky Stiff" is a film that you've never heard of, starring a bunch of people who never amounted to anything. It's only distinguishing features are that it was directed by Anthony Perkins (yes, that Anthony Perkins) and written by Pat Proft (who also wrote "Police Academy", "The Naked Gun", and "Hot Shots", among other films). The film starts off poorly, with most of the jokes in the first half of the film falling flat, as far as I was concerned. However, once Cynthia and Ron travel to the Mitchell family home, somewhere in Hillbilly country, the film improves. Sure, the jokes are still lame, but I actually found myself laughing at them (What can I say? I find jokes about inbred Hillbillies to be funny). In spite of the rather dark nature of the subject matter (you can't get much darker than cannibalism), this is actually a pretty nice film. There's a nice romantic subplot in the film and by the end of the film, I did want Ron to end happily.

Even though, this film wasn't as good as I had hoped (I bought it because I like Pat Proft's other films, but most of them are way better), I don't consider it to be a complete waste of my time or money. I probably won't see this film again in a hurry, but maybe one day, in a few years time, I might be tempted to give it another look. Still, for those of you who haven't bought this film yet, I recommend that you rent it first. I suspect that this film, like its subject matter, it is an acquired taste.