The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rod Amateau
Written by	Rod Amateau Melinda Palmer
Based on	Garbage Pail Kids by John Pound (uncredited)
Produced by	Rod Amateau
Starring	Anthony Newley Mackenzie Astin Katie Barberi
Cinematography	Harvey Genkins
Edited by	Leon Carrere M. Edward Salier
Music by	Michael Lloyd
Production companies	Atlantic Entertainment Group Topps Chewing Gum
Distributed by	Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Release date	August 21, 1987 (1987-08-21)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1 million
Box office	$1.6 million[1]

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a 1987 film adaptation of the children's trading-cards series of the same name produced, directed and co-written by Rod Amateau. It was the last film to be directed by Amateau before his retirement in 1989.

The cards, which began as a parody of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, featured characters with gross habits or abnormalities, or who suffer a terrible fate. The film depicts seven of the Garbage Pail Kids (played by dwarf actors in animatronic costumes) interacting with society and befriending a regular boy.

The film was lambasted by critics and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star but lost to David Mendenhall for Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top, and the song "You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid" was nominated for the Worst Original Song but lost to George Michael's controversial hit "I Want Your Sex" from Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop II.