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Screwballs
Directed byRafal Zielinski
Written byLinda Shayne
Jim Wynorski
Produced byMaurice Smith
Nicky Fylan
Peter McQuillan
Starring
CinematographyMiklós Lente
Edited byBrian Ravok
Music byTim McCauley
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
1983
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$800,000[1]
Box office$1.4 million[1]

Screwballs is a 1983 Canadian teen sex comedy film.[2]

It was inspired by the success of Porky's.[3]

Plot

Four male friends at Taft and Adams High School try to see the bare breasts of Purity Bush, the most beautiful girl in school.

Production

Jim Wynorski designed the poster and said he was inspired by MAD magazine.[4]

Reception

Critical

Variety magazine called the film "a poor man’s Porky’s... full of youthful exuberance and proves utterly painless to watch, but it is so close in premise and tone to its model that negative comparisons can’t help but be drawn."[5]

Box office

The film was led to a sequel, Loose Screws (1985).[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Christopher T Koetting, Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books. 2009 p 224
  2. ^ The New York Times review
  3. ^ "Screwballs", Offscreen, Volume 13 Issue 9 accessed 4 May 2014
  4. ^ Chris Nashawaty, Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses - Roger Corman: King of the B Movie, Abrams, 2013 p 193
  5. ^ Screwballs review at Variety
  6. ^ "Screwballs II". The New York Times.