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Amazon Women on the Moon
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Directed by	Various
Produced by	Robert K. Weiss
Written by	Michael Barrie Jim Mulholland
Starring	Arsenio Hall Griffin Dunne Rosanna Arquette
Music by	Ira Newborn
Cinematography	Daniel Pearl
Editing by	Malcolm Campbell Marshall Harvey Bert Lovitt
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	September 18, 1987 (U.S. release)
Running time	85 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	N/A
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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland.

The film is a compilation of twenty-one comedy skits of various lengths by a group of highly regarded directors. Many of the segments are parodies of late-night television and low-budget movies from the 1950s, meant to simulate an insomniac's aimless channel surfing through late-night television. Some of the skits are in black and white, including the "Reckless Youth" parody of Sex Madness (featuring a cameo by Carrie Fisher).

The following directors filmed one or more of the segments:

• Joe Dante
• Carl Gottlieb
• Peter Horton
• John Landis
• Robert K. Weiss

Landis, incidentally, also directed Kentucky Fried Movie, a 1977 release that used the same anthology/faux broadcast format of Amazon Women.

The film contains performances by some actors known for appearing in B-movies such as Jenny Agutter and Sybil Danning. It also includes a number of then largely unknown actors who would later achieve stardom such as Ed Begley Jr., Arsenio Hall, Joe Pantoliano, Rosanna Arquette, Kelly Preston and David Alan Grier as "the brother without soul", as well as Michelle Pfeiffer and Steve Guttenberg. There are cameos by B.B. King, television star Roxie Roker, and cult film director Russ Meyer. Los Angeles radio personality Al Lohman played the part of a film critic and was credited as simply "Lohman."

The title sketch "Amazon Women on the Moon" is presented as a late night B-Movie feature that suffers from technical breakdowns and is interspersed with the other sketches, in spite of repeated claims that there will be "no further interruptions". Every announcement for the movie gives a different production year.

• Pays tribute to some actual grade Z black and white sci-fi movies of the 50's with planets full of dangerous females, notably Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Queen of Outer Space (1957), and Missile to the Moon (1958).
• Also known as Cheeseburger Film Sandwich (France), as some consider it a sequel to The Kentucky Fried Movie, also known as Hamburger Film Sandwich. Also, a title card for the film within a film Amazon Women on the Moon names Samuel L. Bronkowitz as director, who is credited as producer for several of the film parodies in Kentucky Fried Movie.
• The name of this movie is parodied by the Futurama episode Amazon Women in the Mood.

• The Kentucky Fried Movie, a similarly formatted anthology comedy
• The Groove Tube

• Amazon Women on the Moon at the Internet Movie Database
• Amazon Women on the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes
• Roger Ebert's review of Amazon Women on the Moon on rogerebert.com

Films directed by Joe Dante

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