Main Cast: Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, Shelley Long, John P. Navin, Jr.
Release Year: 1982
Country: US
Run Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
There is hardly any variation on the stereotyped teens-and-sex movie in this story about four high school seniors who travel to Mexico to find a brothel and have something to brag about when they get back home. Among the four is the sensitive Woody (Tom Cruise) who is not sure he wants this trip, the nerd Wendell (John P. Navin, Jr.), the jock Spider (John Stockwell), and the big-talker Dave (Jackie Earle Haley). As the four set off on their adventure, they give a ride to Kathy (Shelley Long), a woman who is a bit ditsy, but decent, going to Mexico to get a divorce from her husband. Once south of the border the quintet meet up with a wide range of clichéd Mexican types and work out their individual experiences in the manner to which teen movies are accustomed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Henry Darrow - El Jefe; Hector Elias - Chuey; Daniel Faraldo - Taxi Driver; Jesse Aragon; Timothy Brown; Kale Browne - Larry; Enrique J. Castillo - Cab Driver; Mario Marcelino - Pablo; Dean Miller; Hector Morales; Santos Morales; Rick Rossovich - Marine; Susan Saldivar; Joe Spinell; John Valby - M.C.; James Victor - Lawyer; Irma Garcia; Rita Rogers; Steve Gonzales
Credit
Vance Lorenzini - Art Director, Patrick Crowley - First Assistant Director, Curtis Hanson - Director, Richard Halsey - Editor, Garth H. Drabinsky - Executive Producer, Joel B. Michaels - Executive Producer, Ken Wannberg - Composer (Music Score), Robb Wilson King - Production Designer, Gilbert Taylor - Cinematographer, Garth H. Drabinsky - Producer, Hannah Hempstead - Producer, Joel B. Michaels - Producer, Kirk A. Francis - Sound/Sound Designer, Bill L. Norton - Screenwriter
Four teenagers from Los Angeles are on their way to Tijuana, Mexico: Dave, Woody, Spider, and Dave's brother Wendell. Dave, Spider, and Woody are there to lose their virginity, while Wendell came along with them to buy fireworks. They end up picking up a woman named Kathy, who goes with them because she wants a fast divorce from her husband, and they get into a series of misadventures south of the border.
