This week’s retro trailer is for the 1985 cheeseball drama Tuff Turf! The movie stars James Spader as the new guy at a Los Angeles high school. He ends up throwing down with a hotshot (Paul Mones) over a disco dancer played by Kim Richards. The movie also stars a very young Robert Downey Jr.
In the film, “Morgan Hiller (Spader) is an intelligent but bullied teenager from Connecticut who relocates to Los Angeles with his strict mother and his father after his father’s business goes under. Morgan befriends Jimmy Parker (Downey) but struggles to make other friends. Trouble ensues when Morgan pursues bad girl Frankie Croyden (Richards), whose sociopathic and psychopathic boyfriend Nick Hauser (Mones) is the leader of a local gang who had a run in with Morgan during an attempted mugging of a businessman. Morgan soon finds pursuing Frankie comes with harsh consequences. Morgan learns some valuable, harsh and hard lessons, and finds out how far he is really willing to go for Frankie. Ultimately, Morgan must face and fight Nick and his gang to test the bounds of his honor, and his love for Frankie.”
If you’ve never seen this movie before and you get a kick out of the cheesy trailer, I also included the film as well if you want to watch it!
