Kenny & Company
Released 1976. “Get ready to have a happy day.. Kenny & Co. are coming your way!”
Don Coscarelli wrote and directed Kenny and Company as an indie film in 1976, featuring future PHANTASM actors A. Michael Baldwin and Reggie Bannister in the cast. With its “ahead of its time” and authentic portrayal of childhood in the 1970s, the film captured the days leading up to Halloween. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox and became one of the most popular film of the 1970s in Japan, where the young cast toured to enthusiastic crowds.
Dan McCann as "Kenny"
A. Michael Baldwin as "Doug"
Reggie Bannister as Mr. Donovan
Movieweb says “Without Kenny & Company, 80s Teen Movies Wouldn't Be the Same”
Cinema website MovieWeb recently took a deep dive into Don Coscarelli's overlooked 1976 film Kenny & Company, arguing the indie coming-of-age story paved the way for 1980s teen classics like The Breakfast Club, E.T., and Stand By Me but hit theaters too early to capitalize on the youth film boom it helped inspire.
Newsweek tells the story of “Why Kenny & Company Is So Hard To Find”
Newsweek does a deep dive on why Don Coscarelli's 1976 film Kenny & Company remains nearly impossible to see, discovering the coming-of-age precursor to Phantasm isn't streaming anywhere and commands $124 for its sole DVD release with rights trapped at 20th Century Fox after the studio mismarketed it as a children's film despite Coscarelli intending it as nostalgic viewing for adults.
The Kenny & Company Theatrical Trailer
The full theatrical trailer from Don Coscarelli’s Kenny & Company released in 1976.