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      Cry Uncle

      R Released Aug 17, 1971 1h 27m Comedy List
      Reviews 64% 500+ Ratings Audience Score A sloppy private eye (Allen Garfield) and a woman (Madeleine Le Roux) help a rich client caught on camera during an orgy. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Audience Member A 1970s comedy full of guns, sex, and buffoonery Our focus is Allen Garfield as a sloppy private eye Jake Masters being hired by a millionaire Both he and a woman, Corra Merrill (Madeleine Le Roux) help a rich client caught on camera during an orgy He gets caught up in a tangled web of murder, love-making, and blackmail It's up to Jake to find a killer while traipsing around several wacky encounters Quite the twist I gotta say given all the kooky scenarios this private eye has to go through Not too many laughs but lots of awkwardness next to the titillation Allen Garfield is very fun to watch This isn't a terrific movie but it's harmless and silly enough Early 70s erotica with some fun involved Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow! The director of Karate Kid made this! Wow! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Superb Send-Up Of Gumshoe Sagas--An outragious, tightly directed humorous of the old murder mystery formula!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A detective movie distributed by Troma can't just be a normal detective movie, this one's got crazy sex-obsessed characters, and the story involves a porn actress' murder. Very early 70s! It's funny in that soft core exploitation kinda way, and I enjoyed it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Fans of Rocky and The Karate Kid probably don't know this, but the Oscar-winning director responsible for both mainstream cocklewarmers was making some very weird sh*t in the early 70s. Before coming down with a terminal case of Good Taste, Avildsen had cranked out the superior sex comedy Guess What We Learned In School Today? (1969) and the classic Summer of Hate film Joe (1970), starring Peter Boyle as a blue collar hippie-killer, and Cry Uncle, a totally whacked-out and very black private-eye spoof marketed as a sex film since you couldn't do much else with its then porno-only X rating. Tubby Jewish comedian Allen Garfield (you'll recognize the face, guaranteed)plays the "Super Dick' hired by a millionaire suspect in a murder case. The investigation soon becomes a trail of dead bodies, including one Garfield has sex with, thinking she's a comatose junkie! Troma president Lloyd Kaufman was production assistant, as with all early Avildsen films from Joe onwards, and plays the bearded hippie on LSD in a motel room. A bad taste masterpiece, Troma later distributed the film, displaying a rare flash of good taste on their part! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member An alright comedy from Troma studios. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Stefan Kanfer TIME Magazine Director John G. Avildsen directs his actors in the same manner that a red light may be said to direct patrons. No matter. Pornography is customarily, in Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichs. Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Michael Billington Birmingham Post Directed, photographed and edited by John G. Avildsen, it is a cheap, nasty little private-eye picture. Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A sloppy private eye (Allen Garfield) and a woman (Madeleine Le Roux) help a rich client caught on camera during an orgy.
      Director
      John G. Avildsen
      Production Co
      15th Street Films
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Aug 17, 1971, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 10, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 27m
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