History Film / JustOneOfTheGuys

''Just One of the Guys'' (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakepeare’s]] ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion and famous for its SignatureScene.

High school senior Terry Griffith (Creator/JoyceHyser) has a great life, but she aspires to be a journalist. When she can’t convince her high school journalism teacher to let her compete for a summer internship, she decides that she isn’t respected because she's a woman. With the help of her oversexed little brother Buddy (Creator/BillyJayne), she goes to a different high school and enrolls as a male transfer student. She starts a friendship with Rick Morehouse (Creator/ClaytonRohner), finds herself the target of bully Greg Tolan (80’s go-to villain Creator/WilliamZabka), and attracts the unwanted interest of Sandy (a young Creator/SherilynFenn).

* ActorAllusion: A strangely circuitous one. Boy-Terry is compared to Creator/RalphMacchio in-universe. The character of Greg Tolan (the film's villain) is portrayed by Creator/WilliamZabka, who was also the villain in Film/TheKarateKid.

** The high school faculty and staff are remarkably absent. Greg Tolan (Creator/WilliamZabka) tears up the lunch room seemingly every day and the few adults present look on helplessly.

* AttractiveBentGender: Creator/JoyceHyser is attractive as a woman and turns heads in the movie as her male counterpart, Terry. (Co-star Creator/SherilynFenn has stated that she found boy-Terry “really cute.”)

* {{Fanservice}}: The film opens with Terry lounging in her underwear, and then in a swimsuit. Later, Sandy (Creator/SherilynFenn) takes off her top to reveal a camisole. [[spoiler: Then there's the explicit scene at the end of the film where Terry flashes her breasts at Rick.]]

* InternalReveal: [[spoiler: Terry has to convince Rick that she's actually a '''she'''. She flashes him to convince him.]]

* JerkJock: Greg Tolan (Creator/WilliamZabka, natch)

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakepeare’s]] Theatre/TwelfthNight as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion and famous for its SignatureScene.

* {{Fanservice}}: The film opens with Terry lounging in her underwear, and then in a swimsuit. Later, Sandy (Creator/SherilynFenn) takes off her top to reveal a camisole. [[spoiler: Then there's the scene at the end of the film where Terry flashes Rick.]]

* MistakenForGay: When boy-Terry professes her love for Rick, he brushes it off as an unwanted gay overture.

* SweetOnPollyOliver: Sandy finds boy-Terry much to her liking.

* SweetPollyOliver: Terry.

--> [[spoiler: '''Rick:''' "Wait a minute, are those what I think they are?"]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Terry:''' "I'm sorry."]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]

* {{Jailbait}}: Played with. Sandy wants to get Terry to go on a date with her. She seals the deal by offering to have a double date with Rick (a high school senior) and her "cute cousin," Jill.

* {{Jailbait}}: Played with. Sandy wants to get Terry to go on a date with her. She seals the deal by offering to have a double date with Rick (a high school senior) and her cute cousin, Jill.

--> '''Jill:''' "Sixth grade is so bogus!"

* JerkassHasAPoint: The journalism teacher who Terry though was just being sexist was actually correct: her story on school lunch nutrition was really boring.

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakepeare’s] Theatre/TwelfthNight as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion and famous for its SignatureScene.

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines Shakespeare’s Theatre/TwelfthNight as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion and famous for its SignatureScene.

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' (1985) is a romantic comedy that reimagines Shakespeare’s Theatre/TwelfthNight as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion famous for its SignatureScene.

* {{Jailbait}}: Sandy wants to get Terry to go on a date with her. She seals the deal by offering to have a double date with Rick (a high school senior) and her cute cousin, Jill.

* CoversAlwaysLie: While there is a scene in the men's locker room, the image on the poster never happens in the film.

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' is a romantic comedy that reimagines Shakespeare’s Theatre/TwelfthNight as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion famous for its SignatureScene.

--> '''Jill:''' "Sixth grade is so lame."

* {{Jailbait}}: Sandy wants to get Terry to go on a date with her. She seals the deal by offering to have a double date with Rick (a high school senior) and her cute cousin.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: [[spoiler: The scene where Terry flashes Rick.]]

* SignatureScene: [[spoiler: The scene where Terry bares her breasts in the end of the film has become iconic.]]

* ActorAllusion: A strangely circuitous one. Boy-Terry is compared to Creator/RalphMacchio in-universe. The chracter of Greg Tolan is portrayed by Creator/WilliamZabka, who was the villain in film/TheKarateKid.

--> [[spoiler: '''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]

[[spoiler: --> '''Rick:''' "Wait a minute, are those what I think they are?"]]

[[spoiler: --> '''Terry:''' "I'm sorry."]]

[[spoiler: --> '''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]

[[spoiler: -->'''Rick:''' "Wait a minute, are those what I think they are?"]]

[[spoiler: -->'''Terry:''' "I'm sorry."]]

[[spoiler: -->'''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: Rick is '''not''' amused when Terry flashes him.

-->'''Rick:''' "Wait a minute, are those what I think they are?"

-->'''Terry:''' "I'm sorry."

-->'''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]

-->'''Rick:''' "Where do you get off having tits?"]]]

* SweetPollyOliver: Boy-Terry.

'''"Just One of the Guys”''' is a romantic comedy that reimagines Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” as an 80’s high school comedy. It was directed by Creator/LisaGottlieb. It is a time capsule of 80’s hair and fashion famous for its SignatureScene.

* TheMakeover: Terry decides that Rick needs a new outfit and a haircut.