MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Dean Parisot
Genres: Comedy
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Dean_Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included Barry_Levinson and Lawrence_Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to death. Cobra helicopter pilots Dorian (Luke_Wilson) and Angus (Jake_Busey) accomplish this by strafing the forest at night as the stepdad runs in terror. No one knows that pregnant Burger-Matic cashier Sally (Drew_Barrymore) was the stepdad's mistress. However, since Burger-Matic and Cobra headsets share the same radio frequency, the notion surfaces that maybe Burger-Matic workers overheard something; Angus suggests that Dorian take a job at the fast-food joint in order to determine just who knows what. Once on the job, however, the situation gets twisted after Dorian falls hard for Sally. The chain-smoking Mrs. Jackson (Shelley_Duvall), Sally's trailer-trash mother, turns up, as does her redneck father, Red (Lanny_Flaherty). In an inside film reference, Angus mentions the classic "Lamb to the Slaughter" episode of Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents. Shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival. Bhob Stewart, Rovi

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