One Crazy Summer (1986) on Netflix
Hoops McCann needs a love story for his art school application. He joins George for a Nantucket summer, and on the way they pick up Cassandra, whose grandfather's house the Beckersteds want.
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Plot summary
Hoops McCann finishes high school without a basketball scholarship and puts his hopes on art school, which asks him for an illustrated love story. His friend George Calamari talks him into a summer on Nantucket, and George's younger sister Squid and her dog Bosco come along. At a gas station on the road, a motorcycle gang led by Stain is looking for a singer named Cassandra Eldridge. Hoops helps her escape, and she joins them on the ferry. Cassandra is on the island for her grandfather, Mr. Eldridge, and she needs to raise the back taxes on his house before the Beckersted family takes the property for condominiums. Hoops, George, the Stork twins and Ack Ack Raymond take her side.
Cast
- Kristen Goelzas Squid Calamari
- Laura Waterburyas Crossing Guard
- Linda Warrenas Mrs. McCann
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Crazy Summer (1986)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Writer-director Savage Steve Holland was reportedly upset with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's criticism of his earlier film Better Off Dead, so One Crazy Summer ends with a gag in which two bunnies resembling the critics are blown up.
- Two animators on One Crazy Summer, David Silverman and Wes Archer, went on to direct The Simpsons and animated the Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show with the film's animation director, Bill Kopp.
