One Crazy Summer

One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Savage Steve Holland
Written by	Savage Steve Holland
Produced by	Gil Friesen (executive producer); Michael Jaffe (producer); Andrew Meyer (executive producer); Claudia Sloan (animation producer); William Strom (associate producer)
Starring	John Cusack; Demi Moore; Curtis Armstrong; Bobcat Goldthwait;
Cinematography	Isidore Mankofsky
Edited by	Alan Balsam
Music by	Cory Lerios
Production; company	A&M Films
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	August 8, 1986;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$13,432,000

One Crazy Summer is a 1986 romantic comedy film written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, and starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, and Joel Murray. The original film score was composed by Cory Lerios.

Plot summary

Hoops McCann (Cusack) is a recent high school graduate who failed to get a basketball scholarship, disappointing his parents. Hoops hopes to be admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design, and must write and illustrate a love story for his application. He joins his friend George Calamari (Murray), and George's sister Squid, to spend the summer on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. En route, they pick up a young rock singer named Cassandra Eldridge (Moore); who is being chased by a motorcycle gang at the time. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack Raymond, must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story.

Cast

John Cusack as Hoops McCann
Demi Moore as Cassandra Eldridge
Curtis Armstrong as Ack Ack Raymond
Bobcat Goldthwait as Egg Stork
Joel Murray as George Calamari
William Hickey as Old Man Beckerstead
Joe Flaherty as General Raymond
Mark Metcalf as Aquilla Beckerstead
John Matuszak as Stan
Kimberly Foster as Cookie Campbell
Matt Mulhern as Teddy Beckerstead
Rich Little as Radio contest DJ
Tom Villard as Clay Stork
Jeremy Piven as Ty
Rich Hall as Wilbur, Gas station attendant
Taylor Negron as Taylor, Gas station attendant
Billie Bird as Grandma Calamari
Bruce Wagner as Uncle Frank
Kristen Goelz as Squid Calamari
Laura Waterbury as Crossing guard
Donald Li as Chong Freen
Jennifer Yahoodik as Andrea

Soundtrack

Song Title	Artist
Don't Look Back	Demi Moore
Take A Bow	Jaime Segel
Easy Street	David Lee Roth
Be Chrool To Your Scuel	Twisted Sister
What Does It Take	Honeymoon Suite
Dirty Dog	ZZ Top
Do It Again	The Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice	The Beach Boys
Fun, Fun, Fun	The Beach Boys
Fandango	Herb Alpert
I Go To Rio	Peter Allen
Outa-Space	Billy Preston
Dancing In The Street	Martha and The Vandellas
Would I Lie To You	Eurythmics
Born To Be Wild	Steppenwolf
Down On The Corner	Creedence Clearwater Revival
Wipe Out	The Surfaris
Theme from Jaws	John Williams
In My Room	The Beach Boys

Production

Several locations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were used for the film: Pope John Paul II High School (as Generic High School), Hyannis West Elementary School (as Generic Elementary), the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole,^[1] where the characters board the ferry, and the motorcycle gang leader jumps his motorcycle into the water. The internal scene of the gas station bathroom were shot on a stage built in the MBL Club in Woods Hole. The inside of General Raymond's Army-Navy store is Mass Bay Company, located at 595 Main Street, Hyannis, MA. The Stork brothers' gas station is the (then-Amoco) located at 1098 Main Street in Dennis, MA.

Hoops McCann is named after the protagonist in Steely Dan's song "Glamour Profession" from the Gaucho album, who is introduced as a basketball aficionado.

Savage Steve Holland was reportedly upset with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert's criticism of his earlier film Better Off Dead, which led to the gag with the two bunnies that get blown up at the end of the movie who resemble the movie critics.^[2]

Reception

Nina Darnton of The New York Times wrote, "In spite of the director's flair for zany humor, this film is just absurd."^[3] Pat Graham of the Chicago Reader found it "Not a bad film, and certainly more polished than Holland's Better Off Dead debut, though it's marred by unevenness and the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning."^[4] The film maintains a 60% score at Rotten Tomatoes.^[5]

References

^ Gelbert, Doug (2002). Film and Television Locations: a State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking sites, excluding Los Angeles. McFarland & Company. p. 111.
^ "John Cusack: The '80s comedy king rules again in 2010". New York Daily News. March 28, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05.
^ Darnton, Nina (August 9, 1986). "One Crazy Summer (1986)". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
^ Graham, Pat (August 8, 1986). "One Crazy Summer (1986)". Chicago Reader.
^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_crazy_summer/?search=one%20crazy%20summer

External links

[1] Gelbert, Doug (2002). Film and Television Locations: a State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking sites, excluding Los Angeles. McFarland & Company. p. 111.

[2] "John Cusack: The '80s comedy king rules again in 2010". New York Daily News. March 28, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05.

[3] Darnton, Nina (August 9, 1986). "One Crazy Summer (1986)". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-06.

[4] Graham, Pat (August 8, 1986). "One Crazy Summer (1986)". Chicago Reader.

[5] ttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_crazy_summer/?search=one%20crazy%20summer

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