GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Eating Raoul (1982)
Info:
- Release Date: March 24, 1982
- Creators: Paul Bartel (director), Paul Bartel (writer)
- Genre: Yuppies vs. Swingers
- Rating: ★★★☆☆
Plot:
- Asexual yuppie couple, Paul and Mary, dream of opening a restaurant in Valencia one day. The only thing that stands between them and their dreams is cold, hard cash. Enter the swingers in the building, who carry chunks of change, but expect nasty sex in return. What's a couple to do except kill them for their cash? Enter petty thief Rail, who's willing to take the bodies off their hands for free. Wonder what's going to happen to Rail?
Notes:
- Paul & Mary trying to decide between Cheese Bland or Paul & Mary's Country Kitchen
- Susan Sager as the sweet, down-to-earth dominatrix
- Buck Henry's cameo as the lecherous bank manager
- Adorable swinger Doris ("They're into doggies!")
- "But can we still serve The Bland Enchilada?"
- Do you realize we've made $1,000 in two days, tax free, just by killing people?"
- "If I could just poke around in your safety deposit box..."
- "Moose is into voyerism and I'm into exhibitionism. We both like B&D, but we don't like S&M. We met at the A&P!"
- Night of the Comet preunion between Mary Woronov and Robert Beltran!
- Future cameo by Paul and Mary Bland in Chopping Mall
Cast:
- Paul Bartel as Paul Bland
- Mary Woronov as Mary Bland
- Robert Beltran as Raoul
- Susan Saiger as Dominatrix
- Edie McClurg as Doris
- Buck Henry as bank manager
- Allan Rich as Nazi
- Ed Begley Jr. as Hippie
