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Mom and Dad Save the World
1992 · Film · 88 min
Directed by Greg Beeman
AdventureComedyFamilyScience FictionAction
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.
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She also played the mom in the campy children's movie, Mom and Dad Save the World, as well as a dancer in Viva Los Vegas.
Damn. She's in the category of people who were all over the place in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory, and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead. The cast list of Mom and Dad Save the World, a stupid as fuck movie that is one of the lowest rated on Rotten Tomatoes, but for whatever I reason I loved as a 12 year-old, is practically a who's who of these people. Jon Lovitz, Jeffrey Jones, Wallace Shawn. Jones got outed as a pedophile and is hopefully gone forever from public life, with Tim Burton pretty creatively writing his character's head out of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so they could recast him. God knows what happened to the rest.
Apparently Teri Garr got MS in the late 90s (which is ultimately what killed her), significantly scaled back her work, then retired. She was in Ghost World? I don't even remember her in that.