The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a 1987 American live-action film adaptation of the then-popular children's trading cards series of the same name produced, directed, and co-written by Rod Amateau. It is the last film to be directed by Amateau before his retirement in 1989 and death in 2003.

The cards were a parody of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and each card featured a character that typically had a gross habit, an abnormality, or suffered a terrible fate. The film depicted seven of the Garbage Pail Kids (played by dwarf actors in animatronic costumes) interacting with society and befriending a regular boy.

The film was universally panned by critics and audiences, and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It was a box-office bomb, earning just over $1.6 million on a $1 million budget.

The Garbage Pail Kids were nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star category (but lost to David Mendenhall for Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top) and the song "You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid" was nominated for Worst Original Song (but lost to George Michael's controversial hit "I Want Your Sex" from Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop II).