The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixation with The Three Stooges. Everywhere Howard goes, he sees Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp intruding on his life. Determined to overcome his fixation, Howard and Beverly prepare for their wedding. But on his way to the ceremony, Howard descends into Stoogemania and finds himself walking into the city streets with other Stoogemaniacs. His only hope is commitment to the Stooge Hills sanitarium, under the care of a renowned psychologist, until the inmates take over the asylum on graduation day.
Practical Effects
Cheap hallucination effects that aged like milk.
Acting
Josh Mostel commits to absolute madness with zero shame.
Director
Chuck Workman
Josh Mostel
Howard F. Howard
Melanie Chartoff
Beverly
Sid Caesar
Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
Joshua John Miller
Young Howard
Thom Sharp
Bob Smoynek
Nancy Lenehan
Connie Smoynek
Jeremy Workman
Smoynek Son
Mark Holton
Son of Curly
Armin Shimerman
Larry II
Paul "Mousie" Garner
Arcade Owner
Victoria Jackson
Nurse Grabatit
Alan Shearman
Justice of the Peace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Three Stooges' estate approved this film, making it an officially licensed descent into madness.
Director Chuck Workman later became an Oscar-winning documentarian; this remains his glorious narrative fiction skeleton in the closet.
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