Line #28 Film/OneCrazySummer


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3	A 1986 screwball comedy written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/DemiMoore.
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5	Needing to get away from home after graduating high school, Hoops [=McCann=] (Cusack) follows his friend George Calamari (Joel Murray) to the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, where they quickly fall in with Ray's [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits old friends]], Egg and Clay Stork (Bobcat Goldthwait and Tom Villard) and Ack-Ack Raymond (Curtis Armstrong). Along the way, Hoops ends up crossing paths with singer/songwriter Cassandra (Moore), who is trying to save her grandfather's home from foreclosure and demolition - especially since greedy [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Aquilla Beckersted]] (Creator/MarkMetcalf) and his [[JerkJock son Teddy]] (Matt Mulhern) have designs on razing the house to build a gaudy lobster restaurant.
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7	Also in the cast are Creator/WilliamHickey as Old Man Beckersted, Aquilla's father who really controls the family money, Joe Flaherty as Ack-Ack's overbearing father, Creator/RichLittle as a Radio DJ running a summer giveaway, and Jeremy Piven as Ty, Teddy's lieutenant in dickishness.
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10	!!Tropes that apply to this film:
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12	* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Subverted. Egg tells Ack-Ack a story about "a little fat boy" who talked funny, and had a twin brother, and so on... and then he reveals that Egg wasn't that little fat boy, the little fat boy was someone he liked to beat up.
13	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The opening, closing, and several segments in between are animated, ostensibly part of Hoops' attempts to create an animated love story as a submission to art school. All of these were created by director Savage Steve Holland, who came from the animation world.
14	* BerserkButton: On his first meeting, Hoops finds out that one of Teddy's buttons is touching his Ferrari; even if his Ferrari touches him first. The other one is making moves on Cookie, even if ''she'' is the one making the moves.
15	-->'''Teddy:''' ''(almost imperceptible and with TranquilFury)'' You touched my car.\
16	'''Hoops:''' ''(equally imperceptible and confused)'' What?\
17	'''Teddy:''' ''(SuddenlyShouting and in a PsychopathicManchild tone)'' YOU TOUCHED MY CAR!!!!\
18	'''Hoops:''' Right! Well, let me just get it clean, then.\
19	''(goes to wipe off area)''\
20	'''Teddy:''' YOU TOUCHED IT AGAIN! DON'T EVER TOUCH MY CAR AGAIN, EVER! EVER!\
21	''(while jumping Hoops up and down and eventually snagging him on a hook)''\
22	'''Teddy:''' DON'T TOUCH MY CAR, EVER! EVER! AGAIN! EVER! EVER! EVER! EVER!!!!!
23	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Egg Stork is usually a lovable knucklehead who usually too timid to stand up to [[JerkJock Teddy]]. However, when he snaps, he goes AxCrazy. When his brother shows up with Ted's car and a black eye, Egg picks up a ''chainsaw'' and carves the engine out of Ted's Ferrari. George provokes this by telling Egg that Beckersted said something about a fighter Egg likes to make him row harder during the race.
24	* BigEater: Cookie, who casually and effortlessly consumes a bag of popcorn twice her size in a few minutes despite being played by the petite Kimberly Foster.
25	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Used in-universe when, during a RousingSpeech, Hoops rails against the "Cute and fuzzy bunnies," eliciting looks of confusion from his friends.
26	** Also the above-mentioned scene where Cookie eats what has to be at least 100 pounds of popcorn. The next time we see her it's as if it never happened.
27	* BlindPeopleWearSunglasses: In the animated ShowWithinAShow segments, the personification of Love is portrayed with sunglasses and a cane because he's blind -- along with being a baby with wings and a diaper, of course.
28	* ChekhovsGun: Hoops' fear of boats is mentioned at the beginning, naturally the climax revolves around boats.
29	* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted in that Hoops (despite his nickname) is established to have absolutely no skill in getting anything through a basketball hoop, but is called upon to sink a ridiculously difficult shot at the climax.
30	** Played straight with his animator skills: his hand-drawn animated advertisement of Cassandra's upcoming act is what drives people to see it (that, and showing it on the drive-in theater in the middle of a regular presentation).
31	* ClingyCostume: This happens when Egg gets stuck in a full rubber Godzilla suit.
32	* ConeOfShame: Squid Calamari's dog who wears this thing throughout the whole film ends up having puppies wearing the same thing.
33	* CuteIsEvil: The "Cute and fuzzy bunnies" from Hoops animated story.
34	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Lampshaded during the boat race. Teddy objects to Aquilla trying to sabotage Hoops' boat because he's already winning, but Aquilla insists that "The only way to win is to cheat".
35	* DriveInTheater
36	* FlippingTheBird: Hoops and his friends do this to Teddy and his sailing crew as they pass by him in their sailing ship refitted with part of Teddy's convertible as its outboard motor.
37	* GoingPostal: The opening animated sequence has the rhino being so distraught (and then enraged) by the bunnies' bullying that he pulls out a machine gun from a case (which has travel stickers from Beirut) and shooting them all dead. Hoops pauses the sequence and says that he's got too much dark crap in his brain to keep working on the project at the moment.
38	* IronicNickname: Despite his name, Hoops is terrible at basketball.
39	* JerkJock: Teddy
40	* KickTheDog: The villain literally kicks a dog as part of his over-the-top characterization. He also likes to listen to lobsters scream as he boils them - with a stethoscope, no less.
41	* NauticalKnockout: The climax pits the heroes against the Beckersteds in the local nautical race with the deed to Cassandra's house on the line.
42	* NeverMyFault: Teddy. He goes ape on Hoops for touching his car even though it only happened because Teddy nearly hit him with his car.
43	* NeverSayThatAgain: The very mention of the word "work" is enough to make idle rich snob Teddy clutch his ears in terror.
44	-->'''Aguilla Beckersted:''' That's right, Ted. You'll have to go to...\
45	'''Teddy:''' No!\
46	'''Aguilla Beckersted:''' Work, Teddy, work!
47	* OverlordJr: Teddy to Aquilla.
48	* RibbonCuttingCeremony: Hoops and his friends try to christen a sailing ship that they fixed up by breaking a travel sized bottle of liquor on the bow, but they end up breaking a hole in the ship instead.
49	* SearchingTheStalls: The leader of a biker gang opens each stall [[spoiler:and finds the person he was looking for in the last one.]]
50	* ShoutOut: Egg winds up getting stuck in a Godzilla suit and having a lit cigar thrown in the mouth of it to give the appearance of smoke coming out. He winds up going on a rampage through a scale model of the BigBad's planned real-estate development plan; complete with explosive pyrotechnics and Creator/BobcatGoldthwait's trademark screaming sounding close enough to Godzilla's roar to pass off.
51	** Hoops [=McCann's=] name is a reference to the Music/SteelyDan song "Glamour Profession", which features a basketball player by the same name.
52	* TakeThatCritics: Siskel And Ebert gave Savage Steve Holland's previous film ''Film/BetterOffDead'' a negative review, so at the end of the movie a pair of "Cute and fuzzy bunnies" who resemble them get blown up.
53	* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Teddy's red Ferrari, complete with VanityLicensePlate, gets torn to pieces by the heroes to create a makeshift super-outboard motor for their boat.
54	* VanityLicensePlate: On Teddys car, "[=CUL8R=]". It fittingly stays on the part of the car that has been converted into the inboard motor that was used on the fixed-up sailing ship Hoops and his friends use in the race.
55	* WastebasketBall: Hoops plays a game of this just after producing another failed cartoon. The wastebasket, which is surrounded by a couple dozen crumpled-up papers, is ''completely empty''.

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