Details

Release year: 1991

Storyline

An unsuccessful, nervous businessman gradually comes to befriend an eccentric, asocial nerd on a trip to Utah to bury a deceased cat.

Top credits

Directors

Trent Harris

Writers

Trent Harris

Cast

Crispin Glover — Rubin Farr
Howard Hesseman — Ed Tuttle
Karen Black — Rula
Michael Greene — Mr. Busta

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Did you know

• Crispin Glover infamously appeared on Late Night with David Letterman (1982) in 1987 dressed, and in character, as Rubin Farr. This caused much confusion to David Letterman as he, after almost being kicked in the face by Glover, walked off his own set while still on the air.

• When Crispin Glover did his infamous David Letterman appearance in character as Rubin, it wasn't to promote the film. Trent Harris was still writing the screenplay, and the movie wouldn't come out until four years later. However, the appearance did wind up connecting onto the movie as being "the movie about the character who tried kicking David Letterman four years earlier."

• When Rubin and Ed enter the abandoned trailer, they find graffiti that says "Andy Warhol sucks a big one." Crispin Glover portrayed Warhol in Oliver Stone's film The Doors (1991).