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Simon (1980 film)

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Plot summary
Cast
Awards
Home video availability
Notes
External links

{{Infobox film
|name = Simon
|image = simon-alan arkin.png
|director = Marshall Brickman
|producer = Martin Bregman
|story = Marshall Brickman
Thomas Baum
|screenplay = Marshall Brickman
|starring = Alan Arkin
Madeline Kahn
Austin Pendleton
Judy Graubart
William Finley
Wallace Shawn
Jayant
Max Wright
|music = Stanley Silverman
|editing = Nina Feinberg
|cinematography = Adam Holender
|studio = Orion Pictures
|distributor = Warner Bros.
|released = {{Film date|1980|02}}
|runtime = 97 minutes
|country = United States
|language = English
|gross = $6,000,000
}}

Simon is a 1980 American comedy film. It was written and directed by Marshall Brickman and stars Alan Arkin.

Plot summary

The Institute for Advanced Concepts, a group of scientists with an unlimited budget and a propensity for elaborate pranks, brainwash a psychology professor named Simon Mendelssohn who was abandoned at birth and manage to convince him, and the rest of the world, that he is of extraterrestrial origin. Simon escapes and attempts to reform American culture by overriding TV signals with a high-powered TV transmitter, becoming a national celebrity in the process.

Cast

Alan Arkin as Prof. Simon Mendelssohn
Madeline Kahn as Dr. Cynthia Malloy
Austin Pendleton as Dr. Carl Becker
Judy Graubart as Lisa
William Finley as Fichandler
Wallace Shawn as Eric Van Dongen
Jayant as Barundi
Max Wright as Leon Hundertwasser
Fred Gwynne as Maj. Gen. Korey
Adolph Green as Commune Leader
Keith Szarabajka as Josh
Ann Risley as Pam
Pierre Epstein as Military Aide at Map
Roy Cooper as General's Aide
Rex Robbins as Army Doctor
David Warrilow as Blades
Hetty Galen as Voice of Mother
Louise Lasser as Voice of Doris
Dick Cavett as himself

Awards

Alan Arkin was nominated for Best Actor in the 1981 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.^[1]

Home video availability

In 1981 and 1990, the film was released on VHS format by Warner Home Video and is now out of print. A remastered copy of the film was released via Warner Archives' Made To Order DVD-R service in 2011 in its original full-frame 16x9 (1.85:1) format.

Notes

1. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081518/awards Alan Arkin's Awards page] at the Internet Movie Database

External links

Simon>at The A.V. Club
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{{amg title|44772|Simon}}

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