Film

Funland

Name: Funland
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1987
Cast: William Windom, David L. Lander, Bruce Mahler, Robert Sacchi, Clark Brandon

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A 1987 action-comedy where a fired amusement park clown plots revenge after the mob muscle in on his beloved Funland. It's anarchic, slapstick-driven, and cheerfully indifferent to plot coherence—the kind of film that exists in its own gleeful pocket dimension. For anyone who loves '80s oddities and doesn't need things to make sense.

TMDb rating

2.2

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