Synopsis
Calvin and Leonard, two broke losers, are arrested for trying to rob rich old sisters Doris and Betty. The women have a change of heart, drop the charges and invite the the boys over to their mansion. Calvin decides he and Leonard should marry the women, and, when they soon die, live off the inheritance. The ladies, however, have run into their own financial troubles and wed the boys with plans of murdering them for insurance money.
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Cast
- Will FriedleCalvin Menhoffer
- Chris OwenLeonard Smallwood
- Louise LasserDoris Mundt
- Renée TaylorBetty Mundt
- Tawny Amber YoungBikini Girl
- Rena RiffelFantasy Girl
- Akira LaneFantasy Girl
- Carmen TwillieGospel Singer
- Mary AlbeeWoman on the Street
- Nikki ZieringCharlene
Recommendations
- 25
Chicago Tribune
For the most part, The Gold Diggers is not even chuckle-producing. At best, it might warm a cockle or two or provoke a bit of a smile. - 25
New York Daily News
It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic. - 25
Boston Globe
Put it this way: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers makes "The Anna Nicole Show" look sophisticated. - 10
Los Angeles Times
A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's. - 0
L.A. Weekly
A May-September sex farce so prodigiously unintriguing that audiences could be forgiven for stampeding from theaters to strangle its writer-director, Gary Preisler, in his sleep. - 0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Less offensive than embarrassing, at least for the chagrined performers. - 0
Washington Post
So stupefyingly hideous that after watching it, you'll need to bathe in 10 gallons of disinfectant, get a full-body scrub and shampoo with vinegar to remove the scummy residue that remains. - 0
Chicago Reader
Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.
