One More Saturday Night

One More Saturday Night Information

One More Saturday Night is a 1986 comedy film, written by Al Franken and Tom Davis, and directed by Dennis Klein.

Plot summary

The film is about life on a Saturday night in St. Cloud, a small Minnesota town. Russ Cadwell is ready to have sex with his girlfriend, Diane Lundahl. Doug, who is a petty thief, decides to become a burglar. Traci is Doug's friend, suggests that they burglarize a nearby house. Mr. Lundahl, father of Diane, Karen, and Kevin, is going out on a date with a woman named Peggy. They have sex in a car at the park.

Karen is babysitting for Bill and Lynn Neal as they go out to eat, Karen's boyfriend comes over to the house and talks her into having a party at the house where she is babysitting. Russ Cadwell gets into an argument with Diane. She and her friend, Tobi, go to the local bar and drink and they watch "Bad Mouth", the band playing there. The lead band members are Larry Hays and Paul Flum. They both are hoping to score. Things get crazier later on as time goes by, but things get better.

Cast

Al Franken ... Paul Flum
Tom Davis ... Larry Hays
Moira Harris ... Peggy
Frank Howard ... Eddie
Bess Meyer ... Tobi
David Reynolds ... Russ Cadwell
Chelcie Ross ... Mr. Lundahl
Nan Woods ... Diane Lundahl
Nina Siemaszko ... Karen Lundahl
Jonathan Singer ... Kevin Lundahl
Eric Saiet ... Doug
Meshach Taylor ... Bill Neal
Dianne B. Shaw ... Lynn Neal
Jessica Schwartz ... Traci
Rondi Reed ... Mrs. Becker
Ann Coyle ... Night desk clerk
Steve Pink ... Dogman
John Cameron Mitchell ... Drunk Teen

Critical reception

TV Guide says the film "suffers from trying to explore a variety of situations, and ultimately gets nothing said at all. The situations are routine, lacking wit or originality. Director Dennis Klein's pacing is slack and reveals no flare (sic) for comedy."

Trivia

Franken, appeared on the 1985-86 season finale of Saturday Night Live during Weekend Update; as part of his segment, he announced that Columbia Pictures was test marketing the film in Sacramento, California in June 1986; he also displayed a map depicting the location of the movie theaters showing the film, and provided directions to the nearest theater for viewers traveling there from the San Francisco Bay Area.

The movie's title is taken from the Grateful Dead song of the same name. (Both Franken and Davis were big Grateful Dead fans.)

Portions of the movie were filmed in Glenview, Illinois.