Released | Mar 01st, 1989 |
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Running Time | 80 |
Director | Jeffrey Scott |
Company | HIS Video |
Cast | Steve Ross, Johnny Dawes, Jack Lofton, Cameron Kelley |
Critical Rating | AA |
Genre | Feature |
Isn't it a little late to be doing a parody of Risky Business? Ask Jeffrey Scott, the producer/director of this gobbler, which begins with Johnny Dawes playing a student on summer break who arrives home to find Dad gone on a three-month "emergency" business trip. Poor Johnny is an actor with considerable presence; gone from the scene for a while, he's now having a very hard time finding the right comeback video.
Even director Scott evidently loses interest in the premise early on; after a bit with two pool men, Dawes and his summer of freedom get left behind completely for some totally unrelated subplots. One's about a would-be model (Steve Ross, superb at playing innocent) and a lecherous casting director (Jack Lofton, a very bad actor). Another gives us the unlikely trio of a mechanic (Mack Dillon) and two hitchhikers, flower child Romeo Hanz and sturdy boy-next-door Cameron Kelley. The video occasionally heats up in spite of itself, but most of it seems like filler.