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The Stuff
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| The Stuff | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Larry Cohen |
| Produced by | Paul Kurta |
| Written by | Larry Cohen |
| Starring | Michael Moriarty Andrea Marcovicci Garrett Morris Paul Sorvino Scott Bloom Danny Aiello Patrick O'Neal James Dixon |
| Music by | Anthony Guefen Jingles by Richard Seaman |
| Cinematography | Paul Glickman |
| Editing by | Armand Lebowitz |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 14, 1985 (USA) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,700,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | Unknown) |
| IMDb profile | |
The Stuff is an 1985 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris, Andrea Marcovicci, and Paul Sorvino. It is often read (and intentionally so) as a parody of big tobacco.[citation needed]
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The plot involves an insidious white glop that is discovered by miners. Upon tasting it, they discover it has a sweet and highly addictive taste. Later the slime is marketed as "The Stuff" and sold to general public in pint containers like ice cream. The Stuff becomes a nation wide craze and drasticallly hurts the sales of ice cream companies. An industrial saboteur is hired by the leaders of the suffering ice cream industry to find out exactly what the Stuff is and destroy it. His efforts reveal that the Stuff craze is far more sinister than anyone had thought. The Stuff is actually alive and gradually takes over the brain, mutating those who eat it into bizarre zombie-like creatures.
According to the DVD commentary by Larry Cohen, A young Mira Sorvino was cast as an extra working at the Stuff factory.
In the film, Clara Peller appears in an advertisement for the product shouting, "Where's the Stuff?", a parody of her "Where's the beef?" commercials for Wendy's.
The Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers" has a similar premise to that of the film. In the episode, Fry, Leela, and Bender land on a planet where they find what looks like fried shrimp nuggets and sell it to a fish restaurant where it becomes insanely popular, until Leela finds out they are actually the recently born children of aliens from Omicron Persei VIII.
- The Stuff at the Internet Movie Database