The 1994 American family comedy film The Flintstones, which is based on the 1960–1966 animated television series of the same name, was directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza.
Along with Kyle MacLachlan as Cliff Vandercave, a villainous executive-vice president of Fred’s company, Halle Berry as his seductive secretary Sharon Stone, and Elizabeth Taylor as Wilma’s mother Pearl Slaghoople, the film stars John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, and Rosie O’Donnell as Betty Rubble.
In character as the BC-52s, the B-52s gave a rendition of the cartoon’s theme song. Released in theaters on May 27, 1994, the California-shot movie debuted. With a $46 million budget, it made about $342 million worldwide despite receiving generally unfavourable reviews from reviewers.
The movie was pushed through a tie-in campaign with McDonald’s. Universal Pictures eventually purchased the film after it was first acquired by New Line Cinema.
Filming Locations
On May 17, 1993, principal photography got underway, and it was completed on August 20, 1993. A portion of the movie was filmed in Los Angeles County, California, and Glen Canyon in Utah.
Sets that approximated an entire street from Bedrock were created near Vasquez Rocks in California. The site was open for tours before its complete demolition.
The most impressive aspect of this live-action adaptation of the TV cartoon series is the superb casting. In case you are unfamiliar with the site, Downtown “Bedrock” was built at the well-known Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, 10700 West Escondido Canyon Road, close to Agua Dulce Springs, California.
This amazing San Andreas Fault outcropping, which rears up in a splurge of fantastic sandstone formations off Highway 14 between Newhall and Palmdale, is about an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles.
It has provided rough Western terrain or strange other-worldliness to numerous films, including pop videos, photoshoots, episodes of the TV series Star Trek, and, more recently, JJ Abrams’ 2009 big-screen reboot of Star Trek. Movies like Alpha Dog. Fred works in a rock quarry in Sun Valley, Southern California called the Cal Mat Quarry.
Plot Of The Movie
Cliff Vandercave, the company’s new vice president, and Sharon Stone, the secretary, discuss their scheme to steal the company’s enormous money, blame an employee, and take off from Bedrock, an ancient suburban area.
For him and his wife Betty to adopt a young child named Bamm-Bamm, who can only speak his name, Fred Flintstone gives his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble a loan of money.
Due to his enormous strength, Bamm-Bamm is at first difficult to control, but he gradually warms up to his new family and becomes friends with Fred’s daughter Pebbles.
Fred’s wife, Wilma, still agrees with his decision to lend the Rubbles money, even in the face of opposition from his mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople.
The employee who receives the best score on Cliff’s aptitude exam will be named the new vice president of the company. Although Barney earns the best grade, he switches with Fred on his paper even though he knows Fred won’t pass. With executive benefits like a lavish office and Stone appointed as his secretary, Fred gets promoted.
Cliff gives Fred a test to see if he will obey his commands by asking him to fire Barney, who, according to Fred’s test results, has the lowest score in the entire firm. Fred hesitantly accepts, even though he doesn’t want to fire him. He also keeps helping Barney maintain his family by allowing the Rubbles to live with them so they can rent out their house.
But soon, Fred’s employment and his newfound fortune get in the way of his relationships with Wilma and the Rubbles. Against the protests of his office Dictabird, Cliff eventually connives to get Fred to fire the other employees.
Subsequently, Barney confronts Fred after witnessing worker uprisings on television and lets it be known that he took different tests from Fred before moving out with Betty.
Fred stays behind as Wilma and Pebbles head over to Pearl’s place. After learning of Cliff’s scheme at the quarry, Fred rushes to Mr. Slate’s office and tries to get Cliff fired. Cliff has reported the crime to the police, though, as he staged the circumstances to make it appear as though Fred took the money.
When Fred runs away, the police and the sacked employees start chasing him down. Seeing this on the news, Wilma and Betty, not realizing Cliff spotted them from his office window, break into Slate & Co. to grab the Dictabird, the sole witness who can clear Fred’s name.
