Drop Dead Fred
Synopsis
Phoebe Cates stars in this bizarre comedy that wants to be the kind of stylish comic fable the likes of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure but ends up looking like a shabby burlesque about schizophrenia. Cates is Elizabeth, who has recently separated from her philandering husband Charles (Tim Matheson) and moved back home with her harridan mother Polly (Marsha Mason). Back in her old little-girl haunts, she regresses into childhood and recalls her imaginary childhood friend Drop Dead Fred (Rik Mayall), a nasty, ill-tempered sociopath. As a child, Elizabeth created mayhem with her imaginary pal, but Polly locked him up tight in a jack-in-the-box. But now, Elizabeth mistakenly liberates him from the jack-in-the-box, and the newly freed Drop Dead Fred proceeds to wreak more havoc than the Id Monster from Forbidden Planet -- taking vengeance upon all the people who have made Elizabeth miserable -- and then some.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Full Credits
- Director:Ate de Jong,
- Writer:Carlos Davis, Anthony Fingleton,
- Producer:Paul Webster,
- Cinematographer:
- Editor:Marshall Harvey,
- Executive Producer:Carlos Davis, Anthony Fingleton, Tim Bevan,
- Cast:
- First Assistant Director:Michael Waxman,
- Second Assistant Director:Daniel M. Stillman,
- Second Second Assistant Director:Julie Herrin,
- Supervising Sound Editor:Michael P. Redbourn,
- Script Supervisor:Benita Brazier,
- Assistant Production Coordinator:Eric Mueller,
- Boom Operator:Pud Cusack,
- First Assistant Camera:
- Location Manager:Tim Hillman,
- Production Coordinator:Julie Hartley,
- Property Master:Deborah Schildt,
- Key Makeup Artist:Lizbeth Williamson,
- Makeup Artist:Richard Blair,
- Music Editor:Kathy Durning,
- Key Hair Stylist:Heather Matisoff,
- Unit Publicist:Julie Polkes,
- Casting:Lynn Kressel,
- First Assistant Editor:Jim Schulte,
- Unit Production Manager:Mary McLaglen,
- Assistant Hairstylist:Daniel Curet, Sherry Hartung, A.J. Nielsen,
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer:Richard D. Rogers, Grover B. Helsley, Robert W. Glass Jr.,
- Stunt Double:Barbara Anne Klein,
- Second Assistant Camera:Kimman Harmon,
- Sculptor:Mitch Devane,
- Special Effects Makeup Artist:Christopher Johnson,
- Original Music Composer:Randy Edelman,
- Assistant Accountant:Margaret Lancaster,
- Scoring Mixer:Elton Ahi,
- Screenplay:Anthony Fingleton, Carlos Davis,
- Still Photographer:Demmie Todd,
- Foley Editor:Tova Szabo,
- Hair Supervisor:Tamara Guthrie,
- Best Boy Electric:Nick Cline,
- Set Decoration:Colin Tugwood,
- Dialogue Editor:Samuel C. Crutcher, Edmund J. Lachmann, Joseph Holsen,
- Production Design:Joseph T. Garrity,
- Art Direction:Rando Schmook,
- Grip:Craig Foster, Johnny Hale,
- Electrician:Tom Franchett, Chris Malone, David Doyle,
- Color Timer:Dan Muscarella,
- Producer's Assistant:Clarissa Troop,
- Costume Design:Carol Wood,
- Production Accountant:Nicole Furia,
- Storyboard Artist:Pete von Sholly,
- Best Boy Grip:Robert Adams,
- Visual Effects Producer:Peter Kuran,
- Projection:Pete Snell,
- Gaffer:Michael LaViolette,
- Key Grip:Robert K. Feldmann,
- Dolly Grip:Clarence Brown,
- Editorial Production Assistant:James Groetsch,
- Wig Designer:Steven Mack,
- Assistant Art Director:Sydney Sharpe,
- Sound Mixer:Robert J. Anderson Jr.,
- Title Designer:Joe Ranft,
- Assistant Costume Designer:Lucy W. Corrigan,
- Assistant Location Manager:Robert Graf,
- Post Production Supervisor:Clarissa Troop,
- Wardrobe Supervisor:Daryl Kerrigan,
- Story by:Elizabeth Livingston,
Technical specifications
- Rating:PG-13
- Country:United Kingdom, United States
- Language:English
- Release:May 24, 1991
- Duration:103 min
- Genres:Comedy, Family, SciFi/Fantasy