Cabin Boy (1994 Jason’s Pick)
The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1994 features Jason’s personal pick, the Chris Elliott comedy Cabin Boy. Written and directed by Adam Resnick and starring Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, Melora Walters, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James and an uncredited David Letterman, Cabin Boy was a commercial and critical failure upon release but has since built a cult following.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Brian Lowry in Variety (https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/cabin-boy-1200435352/), David Mills in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/cabinboypg13mills_a09e2c.htm), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly https://ew.com/article/1994/01/21/cabin-boy-3/).
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