All You Need Is Cash (1978)

Original title

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

Directed by

Gary Weis, Eric Idle

Genre

parody film, music-themed film, pseudo-documentary

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This mockumentary traces the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s rock band called the Rutles. The band is a clear and comedic parody of the Beatles.

mockumentarysatiricallightheartedplayfulaffectionatewrykitschyfast-paced

What happens

All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious English rock group called the Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to the Beatles is "purely – and satirically – intentional". The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and it was directed by Idle and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest ratings of any show on American prime time network television that week, though those who did watch it gave almost unanimously good reviews. It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK on BBC2 on 27 March 1978. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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