O.C. and Stiggs is a mid-1980s film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon. The film stars Daniel Jenkins and Neil Barry as the title characters. Other members of the cast include Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Martin Mull, Dennis Hopper, Ray Walston, Louis Nye, Melvin Van Peebles, Tina Louise, Cynthia Nixon, and Jon Cryer. Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman (born February 20, 1925) is an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a somewhat skewed perspective. ... The National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, recording artist and painter from Chicago. ... Dennis Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an American actor and film-maker. ... Ray Walston (November 2, 1914 - January 1, 2001), USA actor, born in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Louis Nye (born May 1, 1914) is an American comedy-actor. ... Melvin Van Peebles (August 21, 1932 - ) is an American actor, director, screenwriter and composer, and the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles. ... Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American film and television actress. ... Cynthia Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO sitcom Sex and the City (1998–2004). ... You may be looking for UK politician John Cryer. ...

King Sunny Ade appears in the film and provided the score. King Sunny Ade King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1946) is by far the most popular performer of Nigerian juju music. ... A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ...

The film, a raunchy teen comedy described by the British Film Institute as "probably Altman's least successful film", was not released after post-production was completed. MGM shelved it for a couple of years, finally giving it a limited theatrical release in 1987 and 1988. The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... Post production is the general term for the last stage of film production in which photographed scenes (also called footage) are put together into a complete film. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

External links

• O.C. and Stiggs at the Internet Movie Database
• Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O. C. and Stiggs, an issue-long October 1982 National Lampoon story
• Sumary of OC & Stiggs from the British Film Institute
• Plot summary from the New York Times
• Lengthy review from the website of two members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle