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High Anxiety

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High Anxiety (1977)

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Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 16  Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He... [More]
In this perceptive, sidesplitting homage to Hichcock films, director, star, and writer Mel Brooks plays the average American guy, psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke (as in Roger Thorndike, Cary Grant's character in NORTH BY NORTHWEST), who's terrified of heights (think VERTIGO). He becomes the new chief of the Institute for the Very Very Nervous, where things are not what they seem, and it's not long before Richard finds himself embroiled in murder, deception, and other hilarious situations. While Brooks plays the quintessential innocent man accused, Madeline Kahn is perfect as his Hichcockian icy blonde love interest, Victoria Brisbane. It is perhaps Cloris Leachman, though, who is at her most deviantly funny as Nurse Diesel--a kind of cross between her Frau Blucher character from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and Nurse Rached from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. HIGH ANXIETY is a treat to watch just to spot the Hitchcock parodies/homages, as Brooks amiably spoofs some of the suspense master's most famous scenes, including hysterical takeoffs of THE BIRDS and PSYCHO. HIGH ANXIETY is one of Mel Brooks's most consistently entertaining films. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten

Director: Mel Brooks, Ron Clark
Producer: Mel Brooks
Director: Barry Levinson
Composer: John Morris

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 5, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

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The cinematic equivalent of an Elvis impersonator

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Bill Chambers
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Mel Brooks reached his comedy peak with this riotous spoof of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers.

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04/11/06 06:55 PM
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Jon Niccum
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ridiculous and hilarious

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08/26/05 04:08 AM
Rich Cline
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Brooks at his most brilliant!

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its endless parade of campy Hitchcock gags makes us feel smart

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01/20/04 05:13 PM
Don Willmott
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Some sketches are indeed very very funny and some sketches just stink stink.

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07/15/03 09:10 PM
Josh Gilchrist
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Uneven Brooks satire of Hitchcock. Some of it works.

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