Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American adult animated comedy road film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The film was co-written and directed by series creator Mike Judge, who also reprises his roles from the series; Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack and Cloris Leachman star in supporting roles. The film follows Beavis and Butt-Head, two teen delinquents who travel the US and unknowingly become fugitives.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMike Judge
Written by
Based onBeavis and Butt-Head
by Mike Judge
Produced byAbby Terkuhle
Starring
Edited by
  • Gunter Glinka
  • Terry Kelley
  • Neil Lawrence
Music byJohn Frizzell
Color processDeluxe
Production
companies
  • MTV
  • Geffen Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million
Box office$63.1 million

Previous offers by MTV to adapt Beavis and Butt-Head to film were rejected by Judge, before he eventually agreed to the film in 1994. As production began, the series' staff halted production while Judge wrote the screenplay with Joe Stillman. John Frizzell composed the film's score.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater on December 15, 1996, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1996, by Paramount Pictures. The film later aired on MTV in 1999. It also aired on VH1 in 2003. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $63.1 million in the United States and becoming the largest December box office opening of all time until it was surpassed the following year by Scream 2, and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 1996, behind Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A standalone sequel, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, was released in 2022.

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