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"Tuff Turf" is the worst teenage exploitation movie since "Where the Boys Are". It even has an equally wimpy hero, a young actor named James Spader who seems so laid back and introspective and sensitive and zonked that it is occasionally all he can to do rouse himself to the level of speech.
Jan 9, 2015 · Directed by Fritz Kiersch (Children of the Corn), Tuff Turf followed a troubled teen named Morgan (Spader), who is forced to move to Los Angeles when his dad's business goes kaput.
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The night before the first day of school, Morgan is riding his bike through his skanky urban dwelling new neighborhood when a gang of teenage thugs attempt to mug a businessman waiting for the bus. Morgan foils the assault by spraying a can of soda in the perpetrators' faces as he rides by.
What if Holden Caulfield turned into Charles Bronson? That piquant premise underlies the lively but confused teen exploitation film, Tuff Turf.
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Tuff Turf is the worst teenage exploitation movie since "Where the Boys Are". 30. Washington Post. Unfortunately for the makers of Tuff Turf, the plot's as hokey as they come; the dialogue is dreadful ("Life isn't a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived!"); and kids in 1985 are just too sophisticated for such juvenile tripe. Right kids?
Tuff Turf is not a John Hughes film. It is a direct-to-video teen film. This means there’s violence and nudity, thereby earning the film an 18 rating and making it all the more attractive to its core teen audience.
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Morgan Hiller (Spader) is an intelligent but bullied teenager from Connecticut who relocates to Los Angeles with his strict mother and his father after his father's business goes under. Morgan befriends Jimmy Parker (Downey) but struggles to make other friends.
