Word: screwiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters out of the series in possibly the screwiest manner in TV history. After being possessed by the devil, the fellow was transformed into a little boy and returned to his mother. A bit inconvenient for the family, perhaps, but in TV's world of horror, there are worse ways...
Ruthless People combines all the old gags in the book, wrapped up in a slightly different package--from car chases to clown masks to sex with a Dustbuster. It's so over-conscious of trying to be the screwiest comedy ever, of trying to be crude and daring, that it ends up too slick, too planned and much too repetitious. Another summer, another summer movie...
Melvin and Howard. An American dreamer, Melvin Dummar, goes for the big score, insisting he is the heir of Howard Hughes. Jonathan Demme directed the screwiest and most original movie of 1980, and deserves a better commercial fate than he has so far received...