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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
Directed by Alan Smithee, Michael Gottlieb
“She's an ice-cool heiress. He's hot-to-trot. It's Desire Down Under!”
Comedy, Romance · 1h 30m
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
Cast
Cheech Marin
Emma Samms
Vernon Wells
Bruce Spence
Carole Davis
Terence Cooper
Jeanette Cronin
Frank Whitten
David Argue
Bruce Allpress
Crew
- Director
- Alan Smithee, Michael Gottlieb
- Writer
- Grant Morris, Ronald E. House, Alan Shearman
- Director of Photography
- James Bartle, Andrew Lesnie
- Original Music Composer
- Peter D. Kaye
- Editor
- Fred A. Chulack
- Producer
- R. Ben Efraim
Details
- Release date
- 1990-08-31
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia, United States of America
- Production
- Sofa Home Entertainment
- Budget
- $5,500,000