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Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Bobby Bell
- Foul Phil
- (as Robert Bell)
Leo Gordon
- Guard #1
- (as Leo V. Gordon)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJohn Carl Buechler was considered to direct the film. His version of the story was going to be a straight up horror film. The Garbage Pail Kids would have spawned from radioactive sludge that had found its way to a garbage can filled with broken dolls, turning them into serial killers.
- GoofsIn the cinema, Messy Tessie has a bag of popcorn full to the top. She then sneezes and half of the popcorn flies over the cinema, yet in the next shot her bag of popcorn is still full to the top.
- Quotes
Foul Phil - Suit: My tummy hurts!
Greaser Greg - Suit: What did you eat?
Foul Phil - Suit: Everything!
Greaser Greg - Suit: That makes sense!
- Alternate versionsThe UK video version was cut by 26 secs for a PG certificate with edits to imitable techniques and to remove all shots of Greg's flick knife. The DVD features the same cut print. Only in 2024 was this censorship waived and the BBFC rating is now 12.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Borrower (1991)
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Offensively Awful - How Did This Get Made?
Without question the worst movie I've ever seen, and not even in a "so bad it's good" sense. It's ninety minutes of sheer torture, starring a hideous cast of makeup nightmares; indisputable evidence of the lengths a commercial property can stretch for the almighty dollar. Like most children of the eighties, I had a healthy collection of GPK stickers in my closet growing up. The gross-out humor and macabre illustrations were a big selling point, but beneath all that was a creative core and a wild amount of versatility. Every card was completely different. The one-note comedy of their film translation, though, is like opening a pack filled with duplicates. I counted six jokes with a visual punchline of "and then he peed his pants." That's not an exaggeration, and it's not the only example of the flick's careless comedic redundancy. Combine that with an appalling song and dance number (seriously), a horribly out-of-place romantic subplot (starring a pre-pubescent boy and a girl well into her twenties, no less) and a gang of foils cut clumsily from recycled cardboard. It's genuinely amazing this ever saw the light of day.
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- Feb 27, 2012
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- La pandilla basura
- Filming locations
- Sherman Oaks Van Nuys War Memorial Park - 14118 Huston Street, Los Angeles, California, USA(park where Juice and his gang bully Dodger)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,576,615
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $661,512
- Aug 23, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $1,576,615
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By what name was The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) officially released in India in English?
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