
At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan's father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they've been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble. He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can... (Full plot summary below)
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At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan's father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they've been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble. He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can't stop himself from pushing her for a relationship. The thug thinks of Frankie as his property and sees the cool, urbane Morgan as dead meat. Is this a struggle to the death?
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| Miami HeraldSandra EarlyEnough visual bravado to overpower the peculiarities of its class pretensions. |
| Austin ChronicleSteve DavisIf Tuff Turf had used a little more of Downey's relaxed intelligence and amiability, and a little less teenage angst and sense of violence as retribution, it might have been tough stuff. As it is, it's a lightweight in a genre populated with featherweights. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe intensity of the melodrama here is undermined by a camp-ish turn from Robert Downey Jr as Morgan's leathered friend and by risible musical outbursts from Spader and Kim Richards. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTuff Turf is the worst teenage exploitation movie since "Where the Boys Are". |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioTuff Turf is a youthsploitation movie that has fun with its formula, and for that, two cheers. But director Fritz Kiersch's twists promise more than they deliver -- it's just more grist for the run-of-the-mill. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...about as bad as it gets when it comes to cheesy '80s teen flicks. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatCliché ridden proceedings with an obligatory rock soundtrack. |
| Washington PostClay WarnickTuff Turf is so relentlessly derivative that its good points--chiefly an attractive, relatively talented cast--are buried in cliche. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelResponsible for this trash is director Fritz Kiersch, and remember that name. Last year Kiersch gave us one of 1984`s worst films, his adaptation of Stephen King`s ''Children of the Corn.'' Now, with Tuff Turf, Kiersch has made the ''worst'' list two years in a row. |
| User ReviewLisa JSeen it as a kid but can't remember much of it going to watch it again though |