History Film / MovingViolations

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The film follows a group of people who, after being ticketed for numerous traffic violations, lose their licenses and have their vehicles impounded. They are ordered by Judge Nedra Henderson (Sally Kellerman) to attend a driving course program in order to get their licenses and their vehicles back. However, the assigned teacher for this course, Deputy Henry "Hank" Halik (Creator/JamesKeach), is also conspiring with the judge in a plan to make sure these offenders fail miserably, and at any cost. This makes one of the drivers, landscaper Dana Cannon (John Murray), very suspicious and he enlists his fellow students to expose their plot to sell their impounded vehicles.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Finally fed up with Dana after he breaks into the impound and steals back his truck, Halik steals it and robs a store at gunpoint while wearing his usual jacket and uses Dana's truck as a getaway vehicle to frame him which works and Dana is sentnced to a lengthy prison sentence. Once the final chase reaches the DA's office, Halik is wearing the same insigna-covered jacket to cover up the bondage gear he's wearing underneath it. A witness to the robbery [[ContrivedCoincidence just so happens to be there as well]] and points out that Halik's jacket is identical to the robbers which blows his cover and Dana's name is cleared.

** Gets taken UpToEleven when Doc has her come by The Clinic, Doc's hospital-themed auto repair shop, where she thinks it's an actual clinic and ends up butt-naked on a car lift.

** Dana is a snarky smartass much like Mahoney
** Halik and his corrupt female accomplice very much bring to mind Lt. Harris and Callahan (though Callahan was the LesserOfTwoEvils)

* GoryDiscretionShot: One scene has the characters watch a gory traffic safety PSA called ''Blood Flows Red On The Highway'' where a group of schoolchildren are plowed into by a drunk driver. All we see are books and clothing sent flying with blood and guts splattering on a cars windshield, but what we don't see is implied to be incredibly graphic, gory, and violent if the delighted giggling from Wink and the horrified reactions of his classmates are anything to go by.

* VomitDiscretionShot: One of the people attending the driving school vomits into a coffee mug while watching ''Blood Flows Red'' but no vomit is actually shown.

The film follows a group of people who, after being ticketed for numerous traffic violations, lose their licenses and have their vehicles impounded. They are ordered by Judge Nedra Henderson (Sally Kellerman) to attend a driving course program in order to get their licenses and their vehicles back. However, the assigned teacher for this course, Deputy Henry "Hank" Halik (James Keach), is also conspiring with the judge in a plan to make sure these offenders fail miserably, and at any cost. This makes one of the drivers, landscaper Dana Cannon (John Murray), very suspicious and he enlists his fellow students to expose their plot to sell their impounded vehicles.

* YourCheatingHeart: What gets Deputy Morris to turn against Halik and reveal her and his scheme against the driving school students is catching Halik cheating on her. Twice.

* IAteWhat: Deputy Morris performs FingertipDrugAnalysis only for Dana to tell her the white powder she is licking is actually guano.

* GroinAttack: A bowling ball flies out of June's car during a spin-out and lands right in an old man's lap with an audible "thump!".

* AngryGuardDog: After breaking into the impound being using a corrosive liquid Wink made to burn a gap in the chain link fence. Jeff is the first one to go through, only to immediately come face to snout with a pair of snarling dobermans.

* CarMeetsHouse: Due to Doc screwing with the transmission, Halik puts the car in drive, finds out it's now stuck in reverse ends up having to smash through his own house backwards to chase after the band of driving school students.

* GroinAttack: A bowling ball fly out of a car in a spin-out and land right in an old man's lap with an audible "thump!".
* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: The bad cop's squad car is rigged by Doc to go into reverse gear instead of park and not be able to be changed to another gear forcing him to drive backward during the concluding car chase after reversing into his own house. As he's losing his temper, he proceeds to ''deliberately'' back up through the rear wall of his house, then his garden and finally a brick wall.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Finally fed up with Dana after he breaks into the impound and steals back his truck, Halik steals it and robs a store at gunpoint while wearing his usual jacket and uses Dana's truck as a getaway vehicle to frame him which works and Dana is sentnced to a lengthy prison sentence. Once the final chase reaches the DA's office, Halik is wearing the same insigna-covered jacket to cover up the bondage gear he's wearing. A witness to the robbery [[ContrivedCoincidence just so happens to be there as well]] and points out that Halik's jacket is identical to the robbers which blows his cover and Dana's name is cleared.

* KissOfDistraction: After Halik challenges him to a fight, Dana gets him to agree to a simple arm-wrestling match and Halik has a smug grin on his grin as one of Dana's classmates counts down from 3. Once he gets to 2, Dana suddenly plants an open-mouthed kiss on Halik's lips, one-sidely making out with him for a few seconds before breaking it, only to immiedately win the arm-wrestling competition due to Halik being too shocked at what just happened.

* PoliceAreUseless: Played for comedy; aside from the two dirty cops, around 100 officers can't catch our small group of characters on foot, not even with a cop on a motorcycle who inexplicably never has it go faster than a walking pace.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Finally fed up with Dana after he breaks into the impound and steals back his truck, Halik steals it and robs a store at gunpoint while wearing his usual jacket and uses Dana's truck as a getaway vehicle to frame him which works and Dana is sentnced to a lengthy prison sentence. Once the final chase reaches the DA's office, Halik is wearing the same insigna-covered jacket to cover up the bondage gear he's wearing. A witness to the robbery [[ContrivedCoincidence just so happens to be there as well]] as points out that Halik's jacket is identical to the robbers which blows his cover and Dana's name is cleared.
* {{Hypochondria}}: One of the students is a woman with a severe case of this. She was sent to traffic school after swerving her car and the weight of all the bowling balls causing it to spin out of control while panicking that she was ''three minutes'' late to take her pills.

** Gets TakenUpToEleven when Doc has her come by The Clinic, Doc's hospital-themed auto repair shop, she thinks it's an actual clinic and ends up butt-naked on a car lift.

* YourCheatingHeart: What gets Deputy Morris to turn against Halik and reveal her and his scheme against the driving school studnets is catching Halik cheating on her. '''Twice.'''

* GoryDiscretionShot: One scene has the characters watch a gory traffic safety PSA called '''Blood Flows Red On The Highway''' where a group of schoolchildren are plowed into a by a drunk driver. All we see are books and clothing sent flying with blood and guts splattering on a cars windshield, but what we don't see is implied to be incredibly graphic, gory, and violent if the delighted giggling from Wink and the horrified reactions of his classmates are anything to go by.

* TookALevelInKindness: The lady cop who was also sentenced to traffic school is initially onboard with Halik's scheme and they have an active sexlife together... until she catches him exchanging kisses with the corrupt judge. She still goes along with the scheme but acts ''very'' coldly towards Halik. Once she actually catches them in bed together, she reveals the entire scheme to our heroes and actively helps reveal the scheme and gets Halik and the Judge locked up.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Finally fed up with Dana after he breaks into the impound and steals back his truck, Halik steals it and robs a store at gunpoint while wearing his usual jacket and uses Dana's truck as a getaway vehicle to frame him which works and Dana is sentnced to a lengthy prison sentence. Once the final chase reaches the DA's office, Halik is wearing the same insigna-covered jacket to cover up the bondage gear he's wearing. A witness to the robbery [[ContrivedCoincedence just so happens to be there as well]] as points out that Halik's jacket is identical to the robbers which blows his cover and Dana's name is cleared.
* {{Hypochondria}}: One of the students is a woman with a severe case of this. She was sent to traffic school after running a red light while panicking that she was ''three seconds'' late to take her pills.

* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: The bad cop's squad car suffers a mechanical fault after a collision, forcing him to drive backward during the concluding car chase. As he's losing his temper, he proceeds to ''deliberately'' back up into someone's garden and through a brick wall.
** Doc actually set the car to only drive in reverse and not switch out of gear once applied.