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Theodore Gershuny (story)
Tommy Lee Wallace (screenplay)
Release Date:
30 June 1989 (USA) more
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One boy wants her love. One boy wants her dead. more
Plot:
A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks. full summary | add synopsis
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Not just porn for the boys! more (18 total)

Cast

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Matt Frewer ... Charlie Cox

Drew Barrymore ... Joleen Cox
Richard Masur ... Duckett

Karen Austin ... Louise
Susan Tyrrell ... Agnes Reed

Andras Jones ... Jimmy Reed
Dick Miller ... Sheriff Bill Childers

Anthony Rapp ... Pinky Sears
Connie Sawyer ... Viney Hunt

Jennifer Tilly ... Amy
Stephanie Walski ... Sissy Reed
Murrill Maglio ... Man in Trailer
Teri Weigel ... Woman in Trailer

John Spencer ... TV Preacher
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86 min
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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Not just porn for the boys!, 2 January 2002

Admittedly, this film did not deserve a place in the Oscars, but for an average thriller it is watchable.

Pic centres on a young girl just entering adolescence and interested in what every teenage girl is interested in - boys! It is her naivety and inexperience which lands her in trouble. Barrymore is generally good as the confused and lonely angst-ridden teenager, and is sometimes quite realistic in her scenes with Matt Frewer. As a teenager when I saw this a few years ago, I certainly could relate to her and her ineptitude with boys, but now it's just another coming-of-age film with a weak murder plot. Jones was convincing as the ice-cold lust figure for Barrymore, but we never saw enough of him and his character was too rigid. Girls will like him - especially in a wet T-Shirt (Barrymore isn't the only one!)

Nevertheless, some good acting and not a bad film overall, particularly from the women like Susan Tyrrell and Karen Austin, who seem to hold it together better than the men!

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