Orgazmo Production Notes

ORGAZMO is a sex farce that celebrates lust, vulgarity and classically sophomoric humor in a completely original and outrageous way. Written and directed by Trey Parker, who also stars in the title role, ORGAZMO tells the story of a young Mormon who comes to Hollywood as a missionary and accidentally becomes the star of a hit pornographic movie. Presented as part of "Midnight Madness" at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival, ORGAZMO was produced by Fran Rubel Kuzui, Jason McHugh, and Matt Stone, and executive produced by Mark Damon, Kaz Kuzui, and Noriaki Nakagawa. Jacobus Rose was Co-Executive Producer and Farrell Timlake and Anthony Mindel were Associate Producers. Tristan Paris Bourne was Production Designer, Trey Parker and Michael Miller, Editors, and Kenny Gioseffi, Director of Photography. October Films will release ORGAZMO on October 23, 1998.

ORGAZMO FEATURES Trey Parker in the role of JOE YOUNG, an innocent Mormon who becomes an overnight sensation as the porno star and superhero, Captain Orgazmo. Matt Stone appears in selected scenes as Dave, "the lighting guy," along with Dian Bachar, Captain Orgazmo's superhero sidekick, Choda-boy, Robyn Lynne Raab, Joe's nubile and naïve fiancée, Lisa, and Michael Dean Jacobs as Maxxx Orbison, the pornographer determined to make Joe a star.

Parker made his explosive entrance into the entertainment world last fall when his irreverent and irresistible cartoon comedy, "South Park", aired on Comedy Central. Prior to the "South Park" debut, Parker became a legend of the underground circuit with his short film, "The Spirit of Christmas", an impertinent and outrageous cartoon depicting the battle between Jesus and Santa Claus for control of Christmas.

Parker explains "The first thing you learn in comedy is that you're gonna piss people off. But what one person finds totally offensive, another finds really funny. All you can do is try to offend people equally." In ORGAZMO, Parker presents a ribald world where demure old ladies mouth obscenities and naked porn stars exchange pleasantries. In ORGAZMO's Hollywood, a fart can be a deadly weapon, a "stunt cock" can be hired to take the place of a camera-shy penis, and Jesus appears to give his approval to superheroes who stop criminals in their tracks with intense orgasms.

Parker perfected his unique, retro-sensibility when he directed the live-action short, "Your Studio and You", commissioned by Universal Pictures. Shot in black and white and featuring an insufferably pretentious narrator right out of "how-to" featurettes of the past, the film takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to depicting the inner workings of a Hollywood studio. Remarkably, Hollywood luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Michael J. Fox, Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone (always subtitled), Jeffrey Katzenberg, James Cameron, and those masters of so-dumb-it's-smart comedy, the Zucker Brothers, appear in the film and allow themselves to be lampooned.

Parker, along with Stone, were commissioned to make "The Spirit of Christmas" by a film company executive who wanted to send a video holiday greeting to his friends. The cartoon's four foul-mouthed little boys who referee the fight between Jesus and Santa Claus quickly became underground celebrities, prompting George Clooney to send copies to his friends as Christmas cards and rock group Smashing Pumpkins to show the cartoon at their concerts. "The Spirit of Christmas", which was shown at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and shared the Los Angeles Critics' prize for Best Animation, became the basis for "South Park", the animated series which follows the continuing adventures of the four little boys and their friends.

"South Park", which can be seen on Comedy Central, features rudimentary, paper-cut animation, wicked dialogue, and intentionally offensive and off-beat situations. Simultaneously hailed as brilliant and condemned as subversive, the series has provoked intense responses from critics and audiences alike, including a full-page review in Newsweek Magazine. Lovable or loathsome, "South Park" has tapped into young audiences in a way that is truly exciting.

Conceived and executed with "South Park's" underground humor and skewed comic vision, ORGAZMO, which was hailed by Daily Variety as being "massively inventive" and "spiked with perversely wicked humor", offers a classic "midnight movie" experience reminiscent of Tunnel Vision, Kentucky Fried Movie, and of course, the ultimate midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Parker cleverly serves up a new kind of comedy that is affectionately offensive. ORGAZMO is intelligently impudent, intentionally unsophisticated, captivatingly crude, and genuinely funny.