The Hoboken Chicken Emergency poster

Movie · 1984

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

Released 19 November 1984 More from 1984 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henrietta escapes.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Richard Deacon
as City Councilman
Died aged 62, before release
Keene Curtis
as Crandall
61
John Finnegan
as Policeman
58
Dick Van Patten
as Mayor Bagley
55
Clive Revill
as Prof. Mazzocchi
54
Arlene Golonka
as Helen Bobowicz
48
Jerry Houser
as Policeman
32
Peter Billingsley
as Arthur Bobowicz
13
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
49years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Richard Deacon — oldest on the call sheet
13Peter Billingsley — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast
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