Cult Film Showdown Christmas Bonus! The Star Wars Holiday Special
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The Cult Film Showdown brings you a special treat for the Christmas season – the team puts The Star Wars Holiday Special into the Octagon!
A 1978 made-for-TV movie based on a story by George Lucas. The main storyline of the film takes place on the Wookiee home planet of Kashyyyk (including many minutes of Wookie-eese without subtitles).
Chewbacca and Han Solo visit the planet to celebrate the Wookiee holiday Life Day with his family, which includes his wife Malla, his son Lumpy, and his father Itchy.
As Chewbacca and Han are known Rebel agents, they are pursued by the Galactic Empire, who in the process invade Chewbacca’s household. The plot is strung together by a series of musical numbers, celebrity appearances, and other variety-show acts, including songs and comedy routines by such 1970s celebrities as Jefferson Starship, Diahann Carroll, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and Bea Arthur.
“The intersection of 70s pop culture and mounds of cocaine” – James Kata
So sit back and enjoy the laughs as The Cult Film Showdown travels back a long time ago to a galaxy far, far away. The 1970s.
(You know what’s weird? Everyone always talks about this as a Christmas special, but it aired a week before Thanksgiving, so Life Day is more an analogue for American Thanksgiving rather than Christmas. The things you never think about.)
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