When We Went Mad! The Unauthorized Story of MAD Magazine (2024)

Midwest premiere
WHEN WE WENT MAD! with director Alan Bernstein

For generations, MAD Magazine shaped and warped its readers’ senses of humor and their very outlook on the world around them. From the McCarthy hearings and the Cold War to Taylor Swift and social media, MAD Magazine was there to poke fun at all of it.

When We Went Mad! presents the (unauthorized) history of America’s oldest and most influential humor magazine. From MAD’s landmark court case that ensured satire as free speech to its maverick publisher who kept the water cooler filled with white wine, MAD lived its very ethos.

With celebrity interviews from Judd Apatow, Quentin Tarantino, Howie Mandel, Gilbert Gottfried, David Zucker, Bryan Cranston, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and a plethora of the people who created MAD, When We Went Mad! is a celebration of MAD, the nutty geniuses behind it, and the indelible impression they left on American culture.

Directed by local filmmaker Alan Bernstein.
Includes the short, “Scourge of the Nation” – a parody of 1950’s educational films.

2024 | Not Rated | 1 hour and 47 minutes | Digital