Mother, Jugs & Speed

Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 31% want to see it
    (2,479 ratings)

In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is struggling to keep up with the bigger and better funded competition after a law in Los Angeles decrees that the first ambulance to arrive at… More

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Genres
Drama, Comedy

Critic Reviews

  • Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View

    If you don't go expecting a lot, you might find the film makes for a half-evening's worth of laidback diversion.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Raunchy ambulance comedy wavers between jocular fun, misplaced melodrama, and morbid stupidity.

  • Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

    An entirely OK 70s ride, better, perhaps, in retrospect.

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    The nightly travails of an ambulance crew stand in for the bigotry, fear, and paranoia of a nation in flux.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Byron B


    This movie can't decide what it is. Is it a comedy? Is it a social drama? Is it a romance? An interesting concept I knew nothing about executed terribly. It's about the way ambulance services and emergency medical care were provided and were changing in the 70's.… More

  • Fascade F


    This was a good classic Saturday Morning matinee movie. This movie shows the humorous and tragic side on how tough it is to be an ambulance employee. See it...it is a classic.

  • Danny R


    An engaging, very funny black comedy gem from the mid 70s, expertly directed by the late Peter Yates. It concerns a privately owned ambulance company called the F&B ambulance company, and there intense competition with their rival the Unity ambulance company for a contract with… More

  • Christopher B


    Weird comedy with dark moments. Worth seeing for Cosby's and Keitel's performances.

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