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Bob Casale, Carl Reiner, David Cassidy

A virtual pantheon of icons from the 1970s populate Spirit of '76, a 1991 homage of sorts to the decade of excessive, tacky design. David Cassidy plays an inventor from a drab, lifeless futur...( read more  read more... )e that wants to send a team back to 1776 to retrieve the Constitution; a technical foul-up lands them in 1976 instead. You can imagine what follows: Crazy, funky get-ups and limp jokes about Watergate, self-actualization seminars, GM Pacers, streakers, and disco. Leif Garrett, Moon Zappa, Devo, Tommy Chong, Rob Reiner, and others make cameo appearances, as well as more contemporary personalities like Julie Brown. It would be charitable to assume that the filmmakers put all this together lovingly and didn't want to distract from the warm glow of nostalgia by making anything actually funny. Also featuring Olivia D'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, and members of the band Redd Kross. --Bret Fetzer

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PG-13, 82 min.

Directed by: Lucas Reiner

Release Date: January 1, 1990

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003

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  • ileo
    November 20, 2009
    ileo
    Hilarious movie! Definitely a movie from childhood.
    Whoa! I just commented on this previously. Oh well.
  • fallingpigs
    July 9, 2007
    fallingpigs
    This movie didn't have much to it but it was hilarious. Kind of reminded me of Austin Powers and making fun of the 70's.
  • brodyalex
    March 7, 2007
    brodyalex
    Hmmm....I've heard the 70s are crazy.
  • justducky4
    June 28, 2006
    justducky4
    It is so bad that it is good!

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