Little Shop of Horrors Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Frank Oz
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Musical
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It started as a 1960 Roger_Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan_Menken and Howard_Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick_Moranis plays nebbishy Seymour Krelborn, who works in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss (Vincent_Gardenia) bemoans the lack of business, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop -- and himself -- fame and fortune. He purchases a strange plant from an even stranger oriental street vendor (Vincent_Wong), naming the plant after his girlfriend Audrey (Ellen_Greene, one of the few carry-overs from the Broadway version). Gradually, Seymour learns to his horror that "Audrey II" (given the voice of R&B performer Levi_Stubbs) craves blood and flesh. With each of Audrey II's "FEEED MEEE"s, Seymour must scare up human food to satisfy the plant's appetite. One such victim is dentist Steve_Martin, a leather-jacketed Elvis type (the dentist's ultra-masochistic patient played by Jack_Nicholson in the 1960 original is here impersonated by Bill_Murray). The lighthearted tone of the film darkens as Audrey II grows in monstrosity, but the unhappy ending of the Broadway version is avoided herein. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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