Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies' bet that a recurring All That sketch could carry a feature. Directed by Brian Robbins and built around Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, it turned a fast food counter into a launching pad, giving both performers their first starring vehicle and cementing Good Burger as a defining piece of Nickelodeon's crossover into film. It remains a touchstone for that era of kid-facing sketch comedy graduating to the big screen, and for the duo's rise as a comedy team beyond television.
This cell brings together the film's core foursome: Ed and Dexter, the mismatched pair whose friendship anchors the story, alongside Monique and Roxanne, the young women who move through their orbit at the burger stand. Grouped together, they represent the film's ensemble chemistry rather than a single joke or set piece. For collectors, a cell naming all four is prized as a cast snapshot, the kind of moment used to sell the picture's camaraderie in trailers or promotional materials, capturing the ordinary hangout energy that made the movie's world feel lived in.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital theatrical release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a mono or stereo optical print; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, suggesting a Dolby Digital SR print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote alphanumeric key numbers or stock codes.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight blue-violet tint consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image reads as warm and saturated with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the content is consistent with a mid-1990s live-action comedy production matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from 1997, when Dolby Digital SR·D was standard for major studio releases.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000062568
Original Film CaptureAs received
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