Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Fran Drescher

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high scho...( read more  read more... )ol love

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: Floyd Mutrux

Release Date: January 1, 1980

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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2000

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  • September 12, 2009
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    "Tubby's" (the hangout) - The Hollywood Knights

    \Written by Floyd Mutrux and Richard Lederer. Directed by Floyd Mutrux.

    With Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

    It's Halloween, 1965 and teen car club members play practical jokes on the establishment in revenge for the imminent demolishing of their beloved hangout by the local PTA, business fraternities, and neighborhood association.

    Hollywood Knights features somewhat predictable humor, yet is a surprisingly funny, slightly bawdy comedy made for a wider audience than just teenagers.

    It's senior year and the characters are soon to go their separate ways. Their hangout is coming down, and the pranksters are making the obligatory symbolic last stand. Four unoriginal subplots comprise the Halloween night activities: initiating pledges, pulling some clever practical jokes, trying to get laid, and futile actions made by the authorities to apprehend them.

    However, the production manages to hold our attention surprisingly well. One of the funniest scenes occurs when Hollywood Knights leader "Turk Newcomb" (Robert Wuhl) crashes a pep rally and performs "Volare," with a live mike, Le Petomane style. This must seem ribald and tasteless, but the presentation is one of the funniest bits performed in any of these types of movies.

    Hollywood Knights is detestably the fourth funniest and fourth most well written of all of the fraternity/teenage hijinks type comedies that audiences have had to endure for the past 36 years. It could be argued that only American Graffiti, Animal House, and Dazed and Confused would outrank it in entertainment and laughs by the standards of the genre.
  • April 17, 2009
    The poor man's "American Graffiti," with the cast to prove it. If nothing else, it's impressive how well Pfeiffer recovered after this and "Grease 2." Worth a look for fans of the high school genre and of top 40 oldies, along anyone who thinks a premature ejaculation scene betw...( read more)een Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher in a car sounds like a good time. No one can accuse Floyd Mutrux of not being an eclectic director.
  • February 9, 2009
    So boring, I couldn't get through it.
  • January 23, 2009
    tony danza
    michelle pfeiffer
    fran drescher
    moosie drier
  • July 21, 2008
    When you see this movie, you will never, ever, hear the song "Volare" again without laughing out loud...
  • July 13, 2008
    i remember watching this movie when i was really young..as i grew up michele phifer went on to make block buster films..a good funny movie ..
  • May 12, 2008
    Funny. Crazy kid shenanigans.
    From the office inpecting / taste testing the punch: "it has a little wang in it"
  • October 19, 2007
    was a good movie and i miss those days kinda wish things wer more like those days
  • October 18, 2007
    this was a great funny movie
  • October 15, 2007
    Nice cars and first look at now recognizable actors, Tony Danza, Robert Wuhl, Mechelle Phifer, Fran Dresner.

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