Homework (1982)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Director:

James Beshears

Writers:

Maurice Peterson (writer)
Don Safran (writer)

Release Date:

27 August 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

You Can't Do It Enough

Plot:

A good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen (Morgan) tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom (Collins) decides to make a man out of him. |

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Erotica | Female Nudity | Independent Film

Cast

Joan Collins	...	Diane
Michael Morgan	...	Tommy
Shell Kepler	...	Lisa
Lanny Horn	...	Ralph
Erin Donovan	...	Sheila
Renee Harris	...	Cookie
Mark Brown	...	Mix
Lee Purcell	...	Ms. Jackson
Carrie Snodgress	...	Dr. Delingua
Wings Hauser	...	Reddog
John Romano	...	Gilles
Joy Michael	...	Diane at 16
Newell Alexander	...	Mr. Stern
Deedee Downs	...	Sylvine (as Dee Dee Downs)
Ernestine Jackson	...	Cookie's Mother
Bill Knight	...	Cookie's Father
Rosemary Alexander	...	Lisa's Mother (as Rosemary Lovell)
Howard Storm	...	Swim Coach
Beverly Todd	...	Clinic Receptionist
Mel Welles	...	Doctor
Candace Bowen	...	Labrenna
Steve Gustafson	...	Jon
Victor Paul	...	Gilles' Father
Betty Thomas	...	Reddog's Secretary
Jack Warford	...	George
Kathryn Butterfield	...	Hooker
Ali Giron	...	Hooker (as Anhalita Giron)
Joan Rowe	...	Hooker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michelle Bauer	...	Dream Groupie (uncredited)

Directed by
James Beshears

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Maurice Peterson		writer
Don Safran		writer

Produced by
James Beshears	....	producer
Robert L. Fenton	....	executive producer
Don Safran	....	associate producer
Max Rosenberg	....	executive producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Anthony R. Jones		(as Tony Jones)
Jim Wetzel

Cinematography by
Paul Goldsmith

Film Editing by
Allen Persselin

Art Direction by
Ernst van de Bovenkamp

Makeup Department
Anita Friedman	....	makeup artist

Production Management
L.A. Johnson	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jeanie Field	....	first assistant director
Gary Graver	....	second unit director
John Thompson	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Elzemarie Zamparelli	....	property mistress
Chester Kaczenski	....	art director: second unit (uncredited)

Sound Department
Alan Bromberg	....	sound editor (as Allen Bromberg)
David B. Cohn	....	sound editor (as David Cohn)
Petur Hliddal	....	sound mixer
Hudson B. Marquez	....	boom operator (as Hudson Marquez)
Donald L. Warner Jr.	....	sound editor (as Don Warner)

Camera and Electrical Department
Donne Daniels	....	dolly grip
Nancy McGovern	....	still photographer
Tom McGuire	....	second assistant camera
Don Robinson	....	key grip
Jim Salazar	....	best boy
George Stephenson	....	assistant camera
Tom Stern	....	gaffer
Brian Vidor	....	grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Betsy Heimann	....	assistant costumer
Helen Kinsey	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Lisa Fromer	....	assistant editor
Gloria Gunn	....	assistant film editor
Gregory Sanders	....	second editor
Jane Schwartz	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Joy Michael	....	double: Ms. Collins
Julie G. Moldo	....	production coordinator (as Julie Moldo)
Gregory Peterson	....	production assistant
Marie-Claude Wardell	....	script supervisor
Jennifer Yaffee	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Jensen Farley Pictures
• Junior

Distributors

• Jensen Farley Pictures (1982) (USA) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Hollywood Optical Systems  titles and opticals
• Movielab  color (as Movielab, Inc., Hollywood)
• P.C.P. Casting  casting
• Producers' Sound Services  sound

Also Known As:

Growing Pains
Short People

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Jensen Farley Pictures

Soundtrack:

Victim of Romance

Bait and switch in the worst way; and the bait wasn't that fresh either.

This movie was billed as the next best thing to "Private Lessons". The movie was marketed on the misperceived sex goddess status of Joan Collins. She never goes Mary Kay LeTourneau. All you get to see is a really weak teen soap opera. My sister, her fiancé,and I went to this movie and left it with the same reaction we had to Porkies; a triumph of marketing for not a lot of movie. Joan Collins does some flashbacks of her youth and then she was an active participant in romance; it was a low level rip off of the Graduate. The teen band sequence was a bad version of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland OK kids, let's put on a show. The end was not even very climactic; the two male leads walking out of a movie theater and talking of trying to make a movie just like when they started a band.