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"God Bless America" is a new movie written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait that asks the question: Can an alienated teenage girl and a recently divorced middle-aged man dying from an inoperable brain tumor embark on a shooting rampage against mean and obnoxious people, and still find happiness at the end of the rainbow? Bobcat Goldthwait talks ... (more)

Comedian, actor, and filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait became a fixture on the stand-up comedy circuit in the '80s and '90s, developing an idiosyncratic persona that he parlayed into a string of movie roles and TV gigs.

Not long after Bobcat Goldthwait unleashed his maniacal satire of stand-up comedy on an unsuspecting San Francisco comedy scene, People Magazine said he was the hottest up-and-coming comic of 1984.

At times "God Bless America" feels more like an assault weapon than a movie, possibly an AK-47. This funny, sick twist of social satire is certainly locked and loaded, even if its aim is sometimes off.

Bobcat Goldthwait is moving farther and farther away from Hollywood - the industry that paid him to star in three Police Academy movies and the geographical area of Los Angeles.

After starring in three "Police Academy" flicks, playing second fiddle to a horse in "Hot To Trot" and torching his chair during an ill-fated "Tonight Show" appearance, Bobcat Goldthwait might seem like the '80s icon least likely to succeed.

Frank is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, 50-ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker - the protagonist of Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America - on one of his sleepless nights, entertaining homicidal fantasies about the couple next door.

Bobcat Goldthwait remembers when he heard about Bubba Smith's death last fall. The comic admits he didn't stay in touch with his fellow Police Academy alums, save Tim Kazurinsky, aka the diminutive Sweetchuck.

Bobcat Goldthwait, in almost every possible fashion, belongs on the list of those creatures who could only have come of celebrity age in the '80s, along with Emmanuel Lewis, Grace Jones, and Dr.

Anyone who sees Bobcat Goldthwait's fourth movie, semi-sarcastically called God Bless America , might assume he's the same angry comedian who would rant and rave about anything back in the '80s, but he's actually a fairly pleasant and calm individual who just so happens to have written a movie about a guy who is angry at the world and actually does ... (more)

Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait's new movie God Bless America opens with a chilling scene of exaggerated domestic violence and climaxes with an epic shootout.

Bobcat Goldthwait's latest film, God Bless America, made its U.S. premiere on March 9 at the annual South by Southwest Film Festival held in Austin, Texas.

Bobcat Goldthwait is moving. As he settles into a booth at Jones for a late-afternoon salad to talk about his new movie, God Bless America , his biggest concern is that he and his wife are scheduled to vacate their Studio City house in the morning, and they're still packing.