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Meet Morgan Hiller. He's a rebel about to become a hero.
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
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Tuff Turf
Cast
James Spader Kim Richards Paul Mones Matt Clark Claudette Nevins Olivia Barash Robert Downey Jr. Panchito Gómez Michael Wyle Catya Sassoon Francis X. McCarthy Art Evans Herb Mitchell Ceil Cabot Donald Fullilove Vivian Brown Bill Beyers Jered Barclay Lou Fant Gene Pietragallo Donna Fuller Evonne Kezios Cheryl Ann Clark Matt Gavin Chad McCann William Bergman John Berry Jr. Rick Braun Mark Campbell Show All…
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Vince Deadrick Jr. Steven Lambert Jeff Smolek Chuck Waters Pete Antico Scott Wilder Bernie Pock Steve Picerni Spiro Razatos Paula Moody Bob Yerkes
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Ed White Gregg Barbanell Julia Evershade Craig Felburg Blake Leyh Greg Jacobs Frederick Wasser Neil Brody Gary C. Bourgeois Joseph D. Citarella
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Alternative Titles
Los rebeldes, Love-Fighters - Tuff Turf, Love Fighters, 较量场情敌厮杀, Városi vagányok, Love-Fighters, Ultima occasione, A toda marcha, Årgang '85, 터프, Tuff Turf: O Rebelde, Стенка на стенку, 火爆小子, Quartier chaud, Rebel z mé školy
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11 Jul 1985
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17 Dec 1986
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Australia
11 Jul 1985
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France
17 Dec 1986
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USA
11 Jan 1985
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Here's a Rebel With a Clue movie with James Spader as the new kid in town; in a battle with a local street gang.
Man, James Spader smokes it! He looks cool as fuck as he rides his bicycle, sports his shades, pimps his leather jacket, dances a funky groove and even plays the piano while "singing" a romantical tune.
Speaking of music. You have a heavy synth-pop musical score. Plus, multiple scenes with live bands performing. My favorite has to be Jack Mack and The Heart Attack jamming to So Tuff. Jack Mack's gap between his front teeth is a sight to see.
Robert Downey Jr has an enjoyable supporting role as Spader's only male friend in town. He's either…
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Plays like a Cannon REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE knockoff for squares until it unexpectedly escalates in some genuinely alarming ways, and then it's like a reverse THE NEW KIDS.* Amusingly silly and unpleasant in equal measure, and I haven't even mentioned all the musical numbers.
*An essential work for Spader completeists.
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"What do I do right now?"
"Right now, you do what you... really wanna do. Do whatever it is that you know is right. That you believe in. That's all. And feel good about it! Look, son, life isn't a problem to be solved. It's a mystery to be lived. So live it."Just why is the TURF so TUFF? Allow me to explain: James Spader, a man clearly in his mid-20s and inarguably extremely pretty, plays a teenager in this Rebel Without a Cause/West Side Story/The Warriors mash-up updated for 80s kids in Beverly Hills. You get insanely over the top fight scenes, SO MANY MUSICAL NUMBERS (amazingly edited, btw), the Jim Carroll Band (!!!) plays two songs and…
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It is very possible that this hybrid West Side Story and Punk Kids Craze (Class of 1984, Return of the Living Dead, Repo Man) is likely one of the most eighties movies aesthetically, thematically, stylistically, all the -cally's are here alongside Thrashin' or Valley Girl for total bleached denim-hairspray-neon jams. It is backed by an adorable James Spader and fittingly Robert Downey Jr. sidekick. Ultimately though, the story is not really about the boys (which Edith approves) and mostly focuses on our girl Frankie finding her place between her salty criminal gang and the advances of poshy Spader. Overriding LA themes, the simplest of city street life concerns (angsty youth, rivaling gangs, white boy Reagan hate) growing pains, and finding…
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There's a moment in this when Spader is being beaten (again) by the ever-more-violent villain, and I swear, it reads like a bad BDSM scene more than a merciless beatdown between two teenagers. It doesn't help that neither actor looks much like a teenager. If seeing a nearly naked Spader being whipped on the back with padlocks is your thing, I recommend this movie to you.
To say this movie has a problem with consistency of tone is to ignore the fact that the inconsistency of tone is the greatest strength of the film. It makes the film unpredictable. Things escalate so rapidly it feels like you changed the channel to a different movie at times. Bad teen comedy? Schlocky…
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A completely WILD and entertaining motion picture. It's like Rebel Without A Cause but with extreme violence and pure 80s cheesiness. Baby-faced hunk James Spader transfers to a new high school where he faces off against a gang of street punks who are also in attendance, while also developing a romance with the gang leader's girlfriend. There's vehicular bikeslaughter, several live music performances (one of which includes Robert Downey Jr. playing the drums shirtless and sweating), multiple shootings, several beatings with foreign objects (such as car antennas and gym socks filled with locks), a dead animal hanging in a locker, a hand-to-hand final rumble, and a whole lot more craziness to be seen. Strap in and take a trip back…
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Like, totally gnarly. Just when I think I've seen the most 80's shit imaginable (The Wraith, Lost Boys, Chopping Mall, etc.), TUFF TURF comes along and annihilates everything I thought I knew. Allow me to present the following tableaux: 1. Sweaty, neon-lit streets as howling teen punks attack an old man; James Spader, riding a bicycle, emerges from the night as an avenging angel, sideswipes the gang leader and sprays his face with a beer. 2. Daybreak. Exterior: a high school parking lot. Wearing a leather jacket and shades, Spader faces down the gang on a thoroughfare, nimbly dodging cars trying to run him over head-on. 3. Spader anger-dances with the punk girl as a band plays post-punk music, then…
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The first on screen pairing of Brat Pack bff's James Spader and Robert Downey Jr is better than I anticipated. The scenes with Kim Edwards dancing too Mack and The Heart Attacks are sick and the sound track in general is pretty solid. Plus Edwards' hair is amazing.
Not that it is without some big flaws. The dialogue is pretty weak and the villain is so lame he ruins any scene he's in, especially the dragged out climax. Regardless, this is a fun little 80s time capsule with a lot of personality for such a modestly budgeted film. -
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