The Nutt House (film)

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The Nutt House
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Directed by Adam Rifkin
Scott Spiegel (uncredited)
Screenplay by Bruce Campbell (as R.O.C. Sandstorm)
Ivan Raimi (as Alan Smithee Sr.)
Sam Raimi (as Alan Smithee Jr.)
Story by Ivan Raimi (as Alan Smithee Sr.)
Sam Raimi (as Alan Smithee Jr.)
Scott Spiegel (as Peter Perkinson)
Produced byDavid Rotman
Brad Wyman
StarringStephen Kearney
Amy Yasbeck
Traci Lords
Barry Livingston
Stella Stevens
Emil Sitka
King Moody
Joseph Whipp
Sandra Gould
CinematographyBernd Heinl
Edited byMichael Mulconery
Walt Mulconery
Music by Cameron Allan
Production
company
Connexion Film Productions
Distributed byTriboro Entertainment Group
Release date
  • September 10, 1992 (1992-09-10)(Germany)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Nutt House, initially titled The Nutty Nut, is a 1992 comedy film directed by Adam Rifkin. [1] It stars Stephen Kearney, Traci Lords and Amy Yasbeck. [2] It was also the last film for Emil Sitka, Sandra Gould and King Moody.

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Plot

Identical twins Philbert and Nathan Nutt were separated at birth. Philbert is married to a wealthy heiress with a mistress and a political campaign for President of the United States. Nathan suffers from a severe case of multiple personality disorder and has spent his life in a lunatic asylum. Nathan shows up on his brother's doorstep and what begins as a case of mistaken identity spirals out of control.

Cast

Production

Filming took place on location in Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1991. Creative tensions between director Scott Spiegel and one of the film's producers, Brad Wyman, resulted in Spiegel being replaced by another director, Adam Rifkin, three weeks into production. [3] Wyman later stated that he regretted firing Spiegel and blamed it on the fact that he (Wyman) "wasn't a very good producer at the time." [3] As a result, the writers of this film—Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Scott Spiegel—were so embarrassed with the result that they all used pseudonyms instead of their own names in the credits. [4]

Release

The film was released theatrically in Germany on September 10, 1992 and was not released in the United States until the summer of 1995, where it was released directly to videocassette. Two DVD releases followed. The first in 1999, where it was released by Image Entertainment and the second in 2005, where it was released by Ardustry Entertainment. In Australia, it was released on VHS as The Nutty Nut.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide both panned The Nutt House, with the former writing that "the plot of The Nutt House, such as it is, serves merely as an excuse for uninspired slapstick that makes Pauly Shore look like Buster Keaton." [5] [1]

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