One Crazy Summer

One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer

"They're the last bunch in the world you'd expect to win anything... But with this crowd, anything can happen!"
Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Produced by Gil Friesen (executive producer)
Michael Jaffe (producer)
Andrew Meyer (executive producer)
Claudia Sloan (animation producer)
William Strom (associate producer)
Written by Savage Steve Holland
Starring John Cusack
Demi Moore
Bobcat Goldthwait
Curtis Armstrong
Joel Murray
Music by Cory Lerios
Cinematography Isidore Mankofsky
Editing by Alan Balsam
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) August 8, 1986
Running time 89 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $13,432,000

One Crazy Summer is a 1986 romantic comedy film written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, and starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, and Joel Murray. The original film score was composed by Cory Lerios.

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Plot summary

Hoops McCann (Cusack) is a recent high school graduate who failed to get a basketball scholarship, disappointing his parents. Hoops hopes to be admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design, and must write and illustrate a love story for his application. He joins his friend George Calamari (Murray), and George's sister Squid, to spend the summer on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. En route, they pick up a young rock singer named Cassandra Eldridge (Moore); who is being chased by a motorcycle gang at the time. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack Raymond, must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story.

Cast

Soundtrack

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Don't Look Back"   Demi Moore  
2. "Take A Bow"   Jaime Segel  
3. "Easy Street"   David Lee Roth  
4. "Be Chrool To Your Scuel"   Twisted Sister  
5. "What Does It Take"   Honeymoon Suite  
6. "Dirty Dog"   ZZ Top  
7. "Do It Again"   The Beach Boys  
8. "Wouldn't It Be Nice"   The Beach Boys  
9. "Fun, Fun, Fun"   The Beach Boys  
10. "Fandango"   Herb Alpert  
11. "I Go To Rio"   Peter Allen  
12. "Outa-Space"   Billy Preston  
13. "Dancing In The Street"   Martha and The Vandellas  
14. "Would I Lie To You"   Eurythmics  
15. "Born To Be Wild"   Steppenwolf  
16. "Down On The Corner"   Creedence Clearwater Revival  
17. "Wipe Out"   The Surfaris  
18. "Theme from Jaws"   John Williams  
19. "In My Room"   The Beach Boys  

Production

Several locations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were used for the film: Barnstable High School (as Generic High School), Hyannis West Elementary School (as Generic Elementary), the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole,[1] where the characters board the ferry, and the motorcycle gang leader jumps his motorcycle into the water. The internal scene of the gas station bathroom were shot on a stage built in the MBL Club in Woods Hole.

Hoops McCann is named after the protagonist in Steely Dan's song "Glamour Profession" from the Gaucho album, who is in the first verse of the song, introduced as a basketball aficionado (though, as the song progresses, the character is revealed to be mixed up in far less reputable employment).

Savage Steve Holland was reportedly upset with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's criticism of his earlier film Better Off Dead, which led to the gag with the two bunnies that get blown up at the end of the movie who resemble the movie critics.[2]

Reception

Nina Darnton of the New York Times wrote, "In spite of the director's flair for zany humor, this film is just absurd."[3] Pat Graham of the Chicago Reader found it "Not a bad film, and certainly more polished than Holland's Better Off Dead debut, though it's marred by unevenness and the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning."[4] The film maintains a 60% score at Rotten Tomatoes among RT's selected critics, as well as the at-large RT community, among 4100 voters.

See also

References

External links


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