Main Cast: Jim Harris, Jennifer Hetrick, Rick Gitlin, Helen Campitelli, Rick Kahn
Release Year: 1981
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
The estimable New Jersey-based Troma Films, the same firm that brought you such imperishable classics as Toxic Avenger and Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, was responsible for the raunchy baseball farce Squeeze Play. Rather than offer a litany of its highlights (such as they are), we feel that the tenor of the film is implicit in its bare-bones plotline. In the small town of Springborn (its principal industry is a mattress factory), the local all-male baseball team, The Beavers, celebrates each victory by bedding their wives, sweethearts and casual dates. Tired of this chauvinistic treatment, rebellious Samantha (Jenni Hetrick) organizes an all-girl team, the Beaverettes. She forces a battle of the sexes on the baseball diamond, pitting her buxom teammates against the dirty-playing Beavers. Rather enjoyable in its own sleazy way, Squeeze Play occasionally interrupts its R-rated sniggering to offer a parade of shameless product-placement plugs, and halfway through stops dead in its tracks for an interminable wet T-shirt contest. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Jim Harris - Wes
Jennifer Hetrick - Samantha
Rick Gitlin - Fred
Helen Campitelli - Jamie
Rick Kahn - Tom
Diana Valentien - Maureen; Al Corley - Buddy; Jim Metzler; Peter van Norden - Beauty Parlor Manager; Zachary - Pop; Michael P. Morgan - Bozo; Sonya Jennings - Max; William Kirksey - Game Announcer
Credit
Michael Herz - Director, Lloyd Kaufman - Director, George T. Norris - Editor, William Kirksey - Executive Producer, Yuri Denysenko - Lighting, Lloyd Kaufman - Cinematographer, Michael Herz - Producer, Lloyd Kaufman - Producer, Haim Pekelis - Screenwriter, Charles Kaufman - Screenwriter
