This movie came out when I was in college, forty years ago, and at that time I just wasn't interested. I was more into dark, cult comedies, like REPO MAN.
Looking back though, this movie is much darker than I remembered. The visual image of Aunt Edna, riding high on the roof, with her face wrapped in a towel, is closer to PSYCHO than ANIMAL HOUSE. When I saw that last night on TV I screamed . . . With laughter!
And by the way, did you ever read the Grapes of Wrath? Because what happens to Aunt Edna is almost exactly what happens to Grandma Joad . . . And the family handles it in exactly the same way!
Looking back though, this movie is much darker than I remembered. The visual image of Aunt Edna, riding high on the roof, with her face wrapped in a towel, is closer to PSYCHO than ANIMAL HOUSE. When I saw that last night on TV I screamed . . . With laughter!
And by the way, did you ever read the Grapes of Wrath? Because what happens to Aunt Edna is almost exactly what happens to Grandma Joad . . . And the family handles it in exactly the same way!