Main Cast: Patrick Swayze, Piper Laurie, Lee Richardson, Mary McDonnell, Barbara Williams
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Chuck "Tiger" Warsaw (Patrick Swayze) returns to the steel town of Sharon, Pennsylvania hoping to be reunited with his estranged family after 15 years. He spent his time away from home in Miami in a perpetual fog of drugs and alcohol and is struggling to remember what prompted his departure. Tiger eventually remembers seeing his sister Paula (Mary McDonnell) naked. Her premature and hysterical cries of attempted incest prompted an argument with his father Mitchell (Lee Richardson), and in the melee Tiger shot Mitchell and fled. Upon his return home, Tiger finds that as a result of the shooting, his dad's injuries are such that he can't remember anything except his love for high-school sports. Frances (Piper Laurie) is Tiger's sympathetic mother who along with his former high-school sweetheart Karen (Barbara Williams) and buddy Tony (Bobby DiCicco) readily accepts him. His spiteful sister and her yuppie fiancee Roger (James Patrick Gillis) join with other irate relatives to ruin the happy family reunion for Tiger. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Bobby Di Cicco - Tony; Jenny Chrisinger - Val; James Patrick Gillis - Roger; Michelle Glaven - Emily; Kevin Bayer - Robin; Beeson Carroll - Uncle Gene; Sally Jane Heit - Aunt Barbara; Kaye Ballard - Aunt Thelma; Thomas Mills Wood - Lt. Fontana; Cynthia L. Lammel - Paula's Secretary; Don Brockett - Carl; Lisa Cloud - Reunion Friend; Nick Mancuso - Reunion Friend; Sloane Shelton - Patricia; Charles Barletto - Reunion Friend; Frances Clause - 1st Bandit; Keith Cunningham - Sports Announcer; Sylvia Davis - Miss Lily; Curt Debor - Reunion Friend; Aimee Dicks - Young Paula; Christopher Douglas - Young Chuck; Eric Frances - 2nd Bandit; David J. Graban - Reunion Friend; David Bruce Hinds - Taxi Driver; Socrates Kolitsos - Stan; Tommy Lauren - The Young Woman; Reverend Thomas Sebben - TV Preacher; Hugh Washington - Ernie; Linda Weaver - Reunion Friend; Bruce Wetzel - St. Louis TV Announcer; Jeff Scott Yasko - Policeman; Tom Madden - Basketball Restaurant Customer
Credit
Ted Hope - Associate Producer, Deborah Aquila - Casting, Sheila Kehoe - Costume Designer, Amin Q. Chaudhri - Director, Brian Smedley-Aston - Editor, Ernest Troost - Composer (Music Score), Ed Cobb - Songwriter, Christopher Meredith - Songwriter, Jonathan Stuart - Songwriter, Jerry Gergely - Makeup, Georgette Williams - Makeup, Tom Targownik - Production Designer, Robert Draper - Cinematographer, Amin Q. Chaudhri - Producer, Chris O'Neal - Set Designer, Roy London - Screenwriter
