Puddle Cruiser (1996)
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42% of users liked it
(4,266 ratings)
Grogan (Kevin Heffernan) and Matt (Paul Soter) get caught red-handed stealing food from the college cafeteria, but Felix (Steve Lemme) calmly climbs out a back window and gets away. Later, at a party with his friend, Zach (Jay Chandrasekar), Felix catches sight of Suzanne (Kayren Butler) and is… More Grogan (Kevin Heffernan) and Matt (Paul Soter) get caught red-handed stealing food from the college cafeteria, but Felix (Steve Lemme) calmly climbs out a back window and gets away. Later, at a party with his friend, Zach (Jay Chandrasekar), Felix catches sight of Suzanne (Kayren Butler) and is immediately smitten. But not only does Suzanne have Traci (Jamison Selby), her jock boyfriend from home, hanging around, it also turns out that she's defending Felix's moronic friends in the school's case against them. As if this wasn't enough trouble, she's also trying to get them to turn in their unknown accomplice. Zach has his own romantic problems. He's gotten the phone number of a beautiful woman, but she's left out one of the digits, and he's too shy to approach her again, necessitating several hours of dialing wrong numbers. Meanwhile, Suzanne's friend, Emily (Alison Clapp), is being pursued by the kooky campus mailroom worker, Freaky Reaky (Erik Stolhanske). Puddle Cruiser was the first feature from the Colgate University-spawned comedy troupe, Broken Lizard, who produced the film independently. The film was well received at several festivals, including the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, but failed to find a distributor. The troupe took the film on an innovative national college tour, selling tickets and building word-of-mouth. Broken Lizard's follow-up feature, Super Troopers, received a wide theatrical release in 2001. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jay Chandrasekhar
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- On DVD
- Dec 6, 2005
Critic Reviews
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
The writing, acting, and directing (oh, and editing) are clearly, woefully lacking.
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Cast
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Jay Chandrasekhar
as Zach
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Kevin Heffernan
as Grogan
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Steve Lemme
as Felix
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Paul Soter
as Matt
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Erik Stolhanske
as Freaky Reaky
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Kayren Butler
as Suzanne
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Zachary Chapman
as Greg
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Alison Clapp
as Emily
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Jamison Selby
as Traci Shannon
- Arik Ben Treston
- Zach Chapman