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Lucky Stiff

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To start Donna Dixon staring in this movie is reason enough for anyone to enjoy this film. What a stunner! A Hypnotic beauty with the sexuality that could make the sleeping dead rise up out of a coma! Joe Alaskey, who is most recognised for stepping into the shoes of the great Mel Blanc, plays a likable boob delivering physical bumbling movements, lines and gestures reminiscent of the late John Ritter. The story line of the Hillbilly Cannibals is hysterical. The movie plot basically is Alaskey being dumped at the alter, seduced by Dixon at a honeymoon hotel that he goes to by himself, then taken way back up into the hills under the pretense of becoming Dixon's' husband. In reality she takes him back so he can be killed, butchered fresh(the only way Grandma will eat him),and prepared for her Hillbilly Cannibalistic Clan's Christmas Dinner. At one point in the movie he even becomes the sole reason for a Hatfield and McCoy Type feud with another human flesh eating Clan wanting him for their table. Well Joe sup-- Oh well I GUESS YOU'LL HAVE TO WATCH IT TO FIND OUT! I'm sure someone will take offense, get up on their soap box, and start spewing how bigoted and inappropriate this movie is. It's humor so lighten up people and don't take things so serious. Just enjoy it for what it is. A Three Stooges slapstick type humor throughout that most men of all ages laugh uncontrollably at, and the majority of most women don't. As the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert had been known to say "TWO THUMBS UP"

Just what we ordered. The video was in excellent shape. This is one of my daughter's favorite movies. She was extremely happy to receive it.

My Husband loves this movie. I got it for Him and He still gets a great laugh from it.

In this film starring Donna Dixon and her family of flesheaters.Definitely not for vegetarians,it's a creepy flesheating extravaganza if you like horror Movies!!

Ron Douglas (Joe Alaskey) is an overweight loser who has just been dumped, in the middle of his wedding, no less, by his fiancé. In an attempt to recover from this situation, he goes on a holiday to Lake Tahoe, where he meets Cynthia Mitchell (Donna Dixon), a beautiful blonde woman who appears to fall in love with him and who invites him home for Christmas dinner. What she doesn't tell Ron is that her intention is for him to be the dinner.

"The Lucky Stiff" is a film that you've never heard of, starring a bunch of people who never amounted to anything. It's only distinguishing features are that it was directed by Anthony Perkins (yes, that Anthony Perkins) and written by Pat Proft (who also wrote "Police Academy", "The Naked Gun", and "Hot Shots", among other films). The film starts off poorly, with most of the jokes in the first half of the film falling flat, as far as I was concerned. However, once Cynthia and Ron travel to the Mitchell family home, somewhere in Hillbilly country, the film improves. Sure, the jokes are still lame, but I actually found myself laughing at them (What can I say? I find jokes about inbred Hillbillies to be funny). In spite of the rather dark nature of the subject matter (you can't get much darker than cannibalism), this is actually a pretty nice film. There's a nice romantic subplot in the film and by the end of the film, I did want Ron to end happily.

Even though, this film wasn't as good as I had hoped (I bought it because I like Pat Proft's other films, but most of them are way better), I don't consider it to be a complete waste of my time or money. I probably won't see this film again in a hurry, but maybe one day, in a few years time, I might be tempted to give it another look. Still, for those of you who haven't bought this film yet, I recommend that you rent it first. I suspect that this film, like its subject matter, it is an acquired taste.