Albert Insinnia, Annie Potts, Danny Bonaduce

A cherry Corvette Stingray. A gorgeous girl. And a summer in glittery Las Vegas. What more does a guy need for the wildest, weirdest, funniest, freakiest time of his life? Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and ...( read more  read more... )Annie Potts (Designing Women) make comedic and romantic sparks fly in a revved-up tale of car-brained Kenny (Hamill), trailing a Corvette that's mysteriously boosted after his high school shop class restores it to perfection. The trail leads to Fun Capital USA and a ditzy diversion (Potts) whose dream is to become - a hooker! This damsel-in-distress needs a white knight on a candy-apple, metal-flake, superior-mags, mercury-tubes steed - right, Kenny? Both are in for a summer they'll never forget.

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PG, 105 min.

Directed by: Matthew Robbins

Release Date: January 1, 1978

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DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005

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  • February 13, 2008
    A goofy 70's summer hijinks flick. Disastrous followup for Mark Hamill from Star Wars to this.
  • May 28, 2009
    This lighter than helium comedy was Mark Hamill's follow up to Star Wars. A high school grease monkey rebuilds, and tricks out, an old heap of a Corvette Stingray. While showing it off around town with his auto shop classmates, the car is stolen. Hamill goes in search of it, with...( read more) the help of on-the-go call girl Annie Potts, eventually tracking the car to Las Vegas. That's about all the story there is. It's an utterly forgettable movie, but it's also a good natured romp that showcases Hamill when his career still lay in front of him. He and Potts have a believable chemistry, and they both make for likeable characters that are easy to root for. Released only about 6 months after Star Wars, Hamill still had the boyish zeal working for him that served him well in creating Luke Skywalker. Movies don't get much more lightweight than this, and I remember as a kid, only wanting to watch it because it had Luke Skywalker. But it still holds a certain level of charm, is firmly stuck in the 70's, and makes for a nice little 90 minute nostalgia trip, back to a time when I demanded much less from movies. Good performances, easy laughs, and even a couple of really good car chases. Hey...other actors have fared much worse in follow ups to their breakthrough movies.
  • June 21, 2009
    I Love Mark Hamil In This Movie , He Is So Cute
  • March 18, 2009
    This was a really good movie,The time that is was made and the acting were very good,alot better then some of those over acting 70's-80's movies.It was funny to see Mark Hamill and Annie Potts so young.And being a muscle car fanatic I was in heaven to see all those cars.The story...( read more)line was pretty damn good I must say.It Had its humor and sad parts.I felt for him when he saw his car and he started to chase it down the street then*POOF* Gone..I felt like crying with him :(.If you got 2 hours to kill and want to rent a half decent old movie,check this bad boy out.
  • September 1, 2008
    Saw this movie back int he day....I don't remember it being so hammy though??? Some stuff is better left in the past.
  • June 8, 2008
    Not at all interested
  • May 13, 2008
    There is something so oddly sexy about Mark Hammil in this movie. Annie Potts is fabulous as usual in a seemingly B-movie that ends up being much more entertaining than expected. Witty one-liners and dialogue between a naive Hammil and artificially wordly Potts keep this film goi...( read more)ng until the end.
  • March 22, 2008
    A classic vette flick!
  • January 23, 2008
    I was told to see this, that I would like it...
  • September 1, 2007
    WoW..I will leave it at that

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