Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1987
Running Times: 81 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Anderson-Beeler Productions / Barking Cat Studios
Producer: Kathleen Beeler
Co-Producers: Mikel B. Anderson, Peter A. Jensen
Associate Producers: David Floeter, Ian L. Turner

SCRIPT
Script: Mikel B. Anderson, Kathleen Beeler

DIRECTION
Director: Mikel B. Anderson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Kathleen Beeler
Assistant Camera/Gaffers: Jamie Oria, Ian Turner
Stills: Lisa DiPrima
Lab: Monaco Film Laboratories, San Francisco, California, USA

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ian Turner

MUSIC
Music: Rick Frystak, Kent Randolph
Songs: The Gizzards (Wake Up and Cry)
Musicians: Rick Frystak, Kent Randolph
Assistant Musicians: Larry Arndt, Len Patterson, David Slusser
Arrangers: Rick Frystak, Kent Randolph
Music Recordists: Rick Frystak, Kent Randolph
Music Editor: Ian Turner

SOUND
Sound Designers: Mikel B. Anderson, David Floeter, Ian Turner
Sound Recordist: David Floeter
Sound Mixer: André Burke
Sound Editors: Mikel B. Anderson, David Floeter, Ian Turner
Voice Effects Recordist: David Floeter

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical and Mechanical Effects: Mikel B. Anderson, Kathleen Beeler
Models: Mikel B. Andersonm Derek Bigard, Peter A. Jensen, Bob Sumner, Kirk Thatcher, Kathleen Beeler
UCLA Animation Workshop: Mikel B. Anderson
Additional Artwork and Cel Painters: Scott Alberts, Kent Culotta, Valerie Lettera, Celia Mercer, Sherie Pollack, Eugenia Valentino

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Kathleen Beeler
Props: Kathleen Beeler, Peter A. Jensen, Bob Sumner
Original Background Paintings: Jennifer Anderson, Elizabeth Sher, Gail Wiese
T-Shirt Designers: Mikel B. Anderson, Roger Barry, Paul Graf, Gary LaRochelle

OTHER CREW
Production Assistants: Tracy Hodson, Jeanne Lusignan, Andrea Sohn, Gail Wiese
Caterer: David Heintz
T-Shirts Printed By: Louis Charles Nickčls

LOCATIONS
Locations: Berkeley, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA; Santa Cruz, California, USA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks: Tom Arnett, Bill Barron, Roger Barry, Rick Blanchard, Wendy Brown, Joe Hill, Marty Jacobs (Graphic Traffic - Berkeley), Duke Johnston, Kevin Koneral, Richard Leroy, Richard Malzahn, Pamela T. McEvoy, Dan McLaughlin, Bruce Parry, Vidette Schine, Elizabeth Sher, David Strumpell, David C. Williams, David Heintz, Louis Charles Nickčls, California College of Arts and Crafts, UCLA Puppet Workshop and Department of Theater Arts

CAST
Michael Barrack (Michael Mikaele)
Bruce Parry (Dad)
Evan Lopez (infant Michael)
Daniel Patrick (young Michael)
Tamara Jacobson (little girl)
Elizabeth Hodson (little blonde girl)
Anita Forbus (mother)
Taylor Gilbert (Dr Lang)
Anna Clark (Nurse Joleen)
Crystal Forrest (Crystal)
Bill Barron (Bill)
Mikel B. Anderson (Greg)
Jennifer McCasky Anderson (Jennifer)
Louis Charles Nickčls (Louis)
Joan Gouveta (Joni)
Ian L. Turner (D.B.)
Elizabeth Sher (Ms. Du It)
Rod McCasky (Rod)
Tom Arnett (bum)
Cedric Crofts (Rod's boss)
Kathleen Beeler (girl in towel)
Kathleen Maguire (party fox)
Stoney Burke (Drew)
Dave Ellzey (Clarence)
Celeste Miller (master-slave girl (Sheila))
Sylvia Fuller (master-slave girl (Sylvia))
James F. Hrabetin (sad happy face (Larry))
Sylvia Fuller, James F. Hrabetin, Arturo Arias, Roger Barry, Daniel J. Berrick, Joe Carruthers, Ike Fuller, Vicki Mason, Pat Wrentsh, Jamie Oria, Gail Wiese (factory and boardwalk)
Dwight Kiyona (Paul/foreman)
Gary LaRochelle (Gary (Shades))
Eugenia Valentino (screen motivation and voice overs)
Michelle Cooke (body double)
Sylvia Fuller, James F. Hrabetin, Arturo Arias, James Lee, Katherine Back, Derek Bigard, Michael J. Brady, Wendy Brown, Jaime Brunson, Julie Conner, Denise M. Cook, Ana F. Costa, Taryn Fling, David Floeter, Sharon E. Gardner, Iris Goldberg, Daniel Goldschmidt, Paul Graf, Steve Hastings, Douglas Horner, Tracy Hodson, Joe Hill, Catherine Jacobson, Lee Andra Jacobs, Jamie Lake, Suszanne Locke, Jeanne Lusignan,
Marilyn Mason, Jeff Miller, Laurie Miller, Holly Overin, Sally Joy Park, Mike Parry, Michael Perez, Lowell S. Rojon, Andrea Sohn, Dale T. Sophica, Scott Spenser, Troy Stephens, Kathy Stephens, Hilary Sutherland, Art Takeshita, Sonia Turnaski, John Topping, Felicia Von Drake, Billy Woodseed, James Zampathas, Phil Snayerson, Eileen Flaherty (party guests)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: New World Pictures
Video Distributor: New World

USA
Rating: PG

Peek into the mind of the most depressed man on earth.

SEE ALSO
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Eraserhead (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

MAGAZINES

Fangoria no.74 p.13 (USA)
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KEYWORDS

parties, psychiatrists, psychotics, skinny dipping, t-shirts, insanity, comas, hospitals, artists, carnivals, depression, dreams, factories