Tuff Turf (1985)
August 27, 2022 7:44 PM - Subscribe
The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.
Roger Ebert review, 1985:
Life is not a puzzle to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived.
- Dialogue in "Tuff Turf"
It isn't every day that a movie review can perform a lifesaving service, but here goes: I don't think it's going to be safe to sell candy in the theaters that play "Tuff Turf." By the time the above line of dialogue occurs in the movie, it sounds so sublimely ridiculous that people are going to be in danger of choking. Maybe they should train the ushers in the Heimlich maneuver.
Good Efficient Butchery review, 2019:
[The script] seems like it was the result of two writers--one with a violent gang thriller and the other with a goofy teen comedy--clumsily crashing into each other on the studio lot like they're in an old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercial, yelling "Hey, you got your comedy in my thriller!" and "No, you got your thriller in my comedy!"
Roger Ebert review, 1985:
Life is not a puzzle to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived.
- Dialogue in "Tuff Turf"
It isn't every day that a movie review can perform a lifesaving service, but here goes: I don't think it's going to be safe to sell candy in the theaters that play "Tuff Turf." By the time the above line of dialogue occurs in the movie, it sounds so sublimely ridiculous that people are going to be in danger of choking. Maybe they should train the ushers in the Heimlich maneuver.
Good Efficient Butchery review, 2019:
[The script] seems like it was the result of two writers--one with a violent gang thriller and the other with a goofy teen comedy--clumsily crashing into each other on the studio lot like they're in an old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercial, yelling "Hey, you got your comedy in my thriller!" and "No, you got your thriller in my comedy!"
Oh, also it is not in fact a good movie in any way.
posted by skycrashesdown at 7:47 PM on August 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by skycrashesdown at 7:47 PM on August 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
Memorable for young James Spader and Robert Downey Jr., and Kim Richards' extremely crimped 80's hair.
posted by bartleby at 10:03 PM on August 27, 2022
posted by bartleby at 10:03 PM on August 27, 2022
A little too much Jack Mack and the Heart Attack for my liking but Spader’s performance is solid.
posted by porn in the woods at 10:11 AM on August 28, 2022
posted by porn in the woods at 10:11 AM on August 28, 2022
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posted by skycrashesdown at 7:46 PM on August 27, 2022