Under the Rainbow is a 1981 comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and Billy Barty. The plot is loosely based on the gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel, to audition for roles as Munchkins in the movie The Wizard of Oz. The movie also has nobility, assassins, spies, and tourists. The movie was nominated for Razzie Awards for Worst Musical Score by Joe Renzetti, and Worst Supporting Actor . It received extremely negative reviews, many of which condemned the various sight gags involving the little people. The film marked the first acting role of dwarf actor Phil... Fondacaro, as well as his brother Sal Fondacaro. It was partially filmed on location at the Culver Hotel, where the "Munchkins" actually stayed during the production of Oz. It is 1938, and the USA is still gripped by the Great Depression. A corrugated iron barn somewhere in Kansas is serving as a refuge and hostel for a community of the destitute, homeless and unemployed, as well as a post office and bus station. Diminutive Rollo Sweet enters the barn and asks the Mail Clerk whether anything came for him.
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| Release date: | July 31, 1981 |
| Directed by: | Steve Rash |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Editor: | David Blewitt |
| Music by: | Joe Renzetti |
| Estimated budget: | $20,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |