A fine start to Tom Scavo's career!

What fun! The film definitely came to play -- Skippy Handleman as a burnout, a young Tom Scavo as the p*ick (Lynette would have killed him for acting this way), Ozzy Osborne as a do-gooder talking head (that still cracks me up 20 years later, hehe), the poor bewildered mother who they turned into a running gag, and a runaway Ford Pinto. I recall thinking this movie was pretty cool in 1986. Today, it's dated, the acting is stilted, the fashion styles are ridiculous (Doug Savant's early hero was apparently Dolph Lundgren), the music is awful and, well, it really isn't a very good movie when analyzed in any traditional or rational sense. But for some reason it's a lot of fun to watch just the same.

I don't know how this little gem escaped a full front and center seat in the retro '80s nostalgia wave over the past 10 years. The fact that the actor who played Sammi Curr also died tragically young makes this film even more interesting.

4.5 out of 5 stars.