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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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