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Screwballs (1983)

Director: Rafal Zielinski

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From Time Out Film Guide

Few hopes of good cinema survive the title; none the opening scenes, where two big-breasted cheerleaders and an outsize sausage set the tawdry tone. What relentlessly follows concerns the students of Taft and Adams High School, remarkable only for their average age (around thirty) and their avid interest in tits. Now, however one rates the bosom as an erogenous zone, it takes the talents of a Russ Meyer to make it interesting for eighty minutes. Watching the unflagging, unfunny efforts of five callow youths to see the homecoming queen's breasts, one only wonders if ever in the field of endeavour so much has been done by so many for just two.

Author: FD 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Rafal Zielinski

Producer: Maurice Smith

Cast: Peter Keleghan, Kent Deuters, Lynda Speciale, Alan Deveau, Linda Shayne full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 80 mins


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