Friday Matinee: High Anxiety

June: A Century of Mel Brooks

June 5: High Anxiety [1977]: PG, 94m

Just after becoming the director of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke is greeted by a series of mysterious events. When his colleagues -- including the militaristic and mustachioed Nurse Diesel -- become leery of his questions, they accuse him of murder. Thorndyke's own mental health comes into question as he struggles to clear his name in the midst of a crippling bout of a condition known as high anxiety.

June 12 – Life Stinks [1991]: PG-13, 92m

June 19 – History of the World Part I [1981]: R, 92m

June 26 – Spaceballs [1987]: PG, 96m