Released in 1978.
Still classified.
The 1978 original was made for less than $100,000 and released as a parody. Producers and co-writers Steve Peace and Costa Dillon maintain it was a documentary — seized by covert operatives and recast as a comedy so bad that no one would sit through it. Whatever it was, it worked.
It spawned three sequels, a Saturday morning cartoon on a national network, a Game Boy cartridge, comic books, a young George Clooney, and a viewing public that to this day mistakes the docuseries for entertainment.
Now the fifth film is in theaters. Organic Intelligence documents tomato activity through human and pre-human history, and brings the record current. Today it is nature versus artificial intelligence.
- Original budget
- < $100,000
- Official classification
- Comedy [disputed]
- Producers' position
- Documentary
- Case status
- Open



