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The Groove Tube 1974 2 stars

    R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ken Shapiro
Cast: Buzzy Linhart, Richmond Baier, Ken Shapiro, Paul Norman, Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer, Berkeley Harris, Jennifer Welles

  This satire of television fare consists of 20 skits–none of them all that good.

Modern Problems 1981 1 and a half stars

    PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ken Shapiro
Cast: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter, Dabney Coleman, Brian Doyle-Murray, Mitch Kreindel, Arthur Sellers, Sandy Helberg, Neil Thompson

  After a truck empties nuclear waste material on him, air traffic controller Max (Chevy Chase) develops unusual mental abilities: he can physically move objects via his brain waves.

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1. The Groove Tube (1974)
2. Modern Problems (1981)

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