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Bookmark this pageTuff Turf (1984)
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Scenes from the class war in LA. Preppy rebel Morgan (Spader) goes head to perfectly sculpted head with high school toughs, even hitting on the gang leader's best girl. Morgan's father gets in the way of a bullet as the feud escalates to a messy climax. Traces of Romeo and Juliet - or at least West Side Story - surface elsewhere in Kiersch's films, notably Under the Boardwalk. The 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.Author: DO
Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Producer: Donald P Borchers
Cast: James Spader, Kim Richards, Paul Mones, Matt Clark, Claudette Nevins, Olivia Barash, Robert Downey Jr full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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