The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking (1987)
"Daddy says if people don't come to see this movie, we'll starve."
84 min
"My father says if people don't come and see this movie, we'll starve," says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father's "The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking." (Send canned goods to Auteur-Aid, care of Fred G. Sullivan, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983.) "The Guide" is the Sullivan family album, a grandiose home movie focused on the days and nights, life and times of "Adirondack" Fred. And you thought Molly Dodd was a schlemiel. Fred, the most self-obsessed creature since Garfield the Cat, produces, directs, writes, edits and stars in this offbeat, low-budget work. Fred's four children, Fred's tiresome wife Polly, Fred's business partners, psychiatrist, internist, teachers, neighbors, creditors, sommelier and so forth comment on the 42-year-old ne'er-do-well.
- Release date
- January 1, 1987
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- James Calabrese, Kenneth Higgins
- Budget
- $500
Cast
- Jon Granik as Bear
- James Hogue as Conrad P. Drizzle
- Jan Jalenak as The Temptress
- Judith Mayes as Sister Mary Anthony
- Don Samuels as The Cretin Beer Lover
- Roberta Schwebel as Gillian Solomon, M.D.
- Fred G. Sullivan as Self
- Katie Sullivan as Self
- Kirk Sullivan as Self
- Polly Sullivan as Self
Crew
- Fred G. Sullivan · Director
- Fred G. Sullivan · Writer
- Fred G. Sullivan · Producer
- James Calabrese · Composer
- Kenneth Higgins · Composer
- Hal Landen · Cinematographer
- Fred G. Sullivan · Editor