Young Lust (1984) on Netflix
A high school reunion sets off a run of comic disasters involving sex, drugs, murder and a few anatomical oddities.
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Plot summary
Daytime soap opera gets a broad send up. The reunion of Garytown High School's class of 1971 becomes the catalyst for a series of comic crises taking in sex, drugs, murder and several anatomical oddities, with everything pitched at the level of a serial that stopped worrying about plausibility long ago.
Gary Weis directs a script by Robin Menken and Bruce Wagner for Paramount Pictures and the Robert Stigwood Organization. Fran Drescher, Dana Carvey, Mews Small and Terry Kiser head the cast. Rated R, 90 minutes.
Cast
- Edith Fieldsas Mrs. Bodkey
- Howard Mannas Vince Borsalino
- Dean R. Milleras Brian
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Young Lust (1984)
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- Screenwriter Bruce Wagner called the film a "protracted death" because a year was spent editing it, and said that after that year he was approached to work on the movie again for reshoots; it was never released.
- Writer Bruce Wagner said the film's failure became "a template of failure and humiliation" and "a mother lode" for his later work, drawn from career rather than personal anguish.
- Director Gary Weis never made another feature after Young Lust, going on to music videos such as Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" and the Chris Elliot short Action Family, then commercials.
