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A comedy of heroic proportions.
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He discovers life as two students bring him out of the tower and into society.
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Big Man on Campus
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Allan Katz Corey Parker Cindy Williams Melora Hardin Gerrit Graham Jessica Harper Tom Skerritt John Finnegan Bill Morey Andrew Bloch Armin Shimerman Sam Assaid Steven Barr Catherine Bergstrom Nat Bernstein Anna Cannold Jann Carl Richard Cummings Jr. Ellen Emory Robin Frates Scanlon Gail Stacy Galina Cynthia Gouw Gwendolyn Hajek William Hasley Mel Howard Elaine Kagan Eve Kagan Mary Kohnert Show All…
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The Hunchback Hairball of L.A., Das bucklige Schlitzohr, Szent menedék, Una Gran Promesa, O Corcunda do Campus, Ragazze, il mostro è innamorato
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12 Dec 1989
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"Big Man on Campus" is a 1989 comedy directed by Jeremy Kagan. In an absurdist retelling of Victor Hugo's 1931 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", the film centers around a hunchbacked character named Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga (one "Malooga" and four "loogas" as he puts it) who inhabits a tower on the UCLA college campus. While Hugo's story is far more the dramatic formulation, "Big Man on Campus" is an ironic college comedy that essentially turns its character into a caveman or a missing link for study.
Wasting no time at all, I somewhat laughed out loud that the film pours like 40 minutes' worth of plot into the first 5-10 minutes of the film. You almost get whiplash as the character…
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For fans of SHORT CIRCUIT & ENCINO MAN — this should be a bit more of an 80s classic than it is. What Allan Katz (who also wrote the film) is doing here is often quite hilarious.
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bizarre movie that never quite landed for me but i love a big deranged idea simply on principle!
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In which plucky young college kids teach a perverted monster to assimilate into American society.
Also, why isn't this movie set at Notre Dame?
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Cute comedy that hangs upon a) whether or not you find Allan Katz's performance funny and b) whether the groan-worthy jokes Corey Parker spouts throughout annoy you or not. I was pretty on board for both so I laughed a good bit throughout this and found it overall charming and likable.
Gets bonus points for having a great small role for Gerrit Graham who plays a GOTCHA! style television host in the finale with great aplomb.
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Surprisingly cute college set comedy (with Tom Skerritt no less!) about a feral hunchback found roaming a college campus at night--and the professor who sees this as an amazing opportunity to show how education can civilize a living being or something like that (I'm not really sure what his motive was here, something about a research paper?) So it isn't too long before the hunchback is living with one of the professors' assistants whose job it is to keep an eye on him (and the hunchback kinda develops a crush on his girlfriend Kathy) and he's gotta sorta show him the daily life of being at college. Watching the hunchback semi integrate himself into campus life is a little reminiscent…
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This was very funny and sweet and bizarre. Gerrit Graham and Jessica Harper together again! The working title for this was The Hunchback of UCLA, which fits more than Big Man on Campus.
Preceded by a nice chat with writer/star Allan Katz and Corey Parker, who starred in this and the other half of the double, How I Got Into College. These guys were both great. Guest host Brian lead a fun spoiler-free discussion. Very cool!
After a short intermission, there was a really fun 2002 Coca-Cola ad and a themed trailer reel:
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Great cast for a bizarre movie. A movie like this would only come from this period of time. This is such a 1989/1991 style movie, if this came out in like 2001 I would not believe it at all. Certain plots just don't get used anymore, this is by no means a good movie but it's a fun one and I laughed a few times. Plus it's hard to hate something with Jessica Harper and Gerrit Graham. Also Tom Skerrit is inexplicably here. So strange.
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Too fantastical for my taste. In reality there'd be a lot more shitting and masturbating in public.
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So many classic amazing films that I haven’t seen, and yet this is what I decide to watch