Looking for Movie Poster

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I have some original ads from the newspapers when is was first released that I could xerox but that is it

I have looked for a poster for this over the years and have also had no luck. I've done google searches and repeatedly checked moviegoods.com and recently have discovered movieposterdb.com, but still there's nothing.

HEALTH was sort of abandoned by its studio and was even featured in an article in TIME (or maybe Newsweek) about orphaned films, ones that are shelved and forgotten. Two others mentioned were THE GREAT SANTINI and THE STUNTMAN, both of which benefitted from the publicity and were finally released to much critical acclaim and some boxoffice success. However, Altman's film wasn't so lucky. I'm not sure if it ever got released to any real moviehouses. I think I ended up seeing it on TV as a CBS late movie (this was back when the network ran old movies opposite Johnny Carson. I have a grainy, blurry tape of it that I copied off the Bravo channel in the late 1980s (back when the channel was an "arts" channel).

The only print advertisement that I have ever seen for HEALTH was a flyer posted around the University of Illinois campus (Champaign) when some film society got a copy of the film and showed it. (I didn't get to see it, had to work or something.) The flyer was a cartoon drawing of an upraised fist clutching a carrot. It was very poorly drawn, and I still don't know if it was an actual studio ad or something the film group slapped together. But clearly absolutely no attempt was made to promote this film on any level.


Okay, it isn't a great film and certainly wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea, but given that Altman had a strong cult following AND it is essentially a romantic comedy starring Carol Burnett and James Garner AND it has a great supporting cast, I've never understood why it was just totally thrown away by its studio. The only thing that makes sense to me was that at the time 20th Century-Fox was riding high on the success of STAR WARS and it (like every other studio) was interested in only in finding the next mega-blockbuster. But, of course, if that is the case, you have to wonder why they became involved with a Robert Altman film in the first place.

This was belatedly released in April, 1982 at New York City's great reperortory house, The Film Forum. I remember clearly the New York Times giving it a semi favorable review but the only ad was in the Village Voice and even that wasnt a poster type ad. I was 19 years old at the time and having watched NASHVILLE every time it played on HBO and mesmerised by THREE WOMEN in theaters , looked forward to seeing HEALTH and loved that after reading about it for 3 years (Altman would have had 4 releases in 1 year with A WEDDING (my 2nd fave Altman film), the disastrous QUINTET , the charming and underrated A PERFECT COUPLE and the aborted HEALTH in 1979)it finally arrived. I remeber not being too impressed and distinctly that there was no poster in the frame outside the theater just stills.
The HEALTH crisis continues. I am very surprised Fox did not include this in their Altman set . It seemed a great companion to the "perfect couple" of QUINTET and A WEDDING. While I cherish my Criterion THREE WOMEN DVD, HEALTH doesnt seem to deserve the Criterion treatment. Now that Fox controls the United Artist MGM library they should have a deluxe set which includes MASH, IMAGES, THE LONG GOODBYE, BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, THREE WOMEN, A WEDDING, A PERFECT COUPLE, QUINTET, HEALTH , STREAMERS,SECRET HONOR and OC AND STIGGS for a nice 12 pack.

*beep*

Look here: http://f---yeahrobertaltman.tumblr.com/

Looks like one of the original planned designs by poster artist Drew Struzan from the era.

Link gets cenorsed because it contains the f word