Tuff Turf

Name: Tuff Turf
Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy
Released: January 11, 1985
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Catya Sassoon, Claudette Nevins, James Spader, Kim Richards, Matt Clark

1985

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New World Pictures | Release Date: January 11, 1985 | R

Starring: Catya Sassoon, Claudette Nevins, James Spader, Kim Richards, Matt Clark, Michael Wyle, Olivia Barash, Panchito Gómez, Paul Mones, Robert Downey Jr.

Summary: The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.

Director: Fritz Kiersch

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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Sandra Early

But in addition to the sex and violence, there is also surprising style, humor and, yes, drama -- drama that actually serves to justify much of the violence.[11 Jan 1985, p.D14]

Janet Maslin

Enough visual bravado to overpower the peculiarities of its class pretensions. Read full review

Liam Lacey

What if Holden Caulfield turned into Charles Bronson? That piquant premise underlies the lively but confused teen exploitation film, Tuff Turf.

Paul Attanasio

Tuff Turf is a youthsploitation movie that has fun with its formula, and for that, two cheers. But director Fritz Kiersch's twists promise more than they deliver -- it's just more grist for the run-of-the-mill. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The intensity of the melodrama here is undermined by a camp-ish turn from Robert Downey Jr as Morgan's leathered friend and by risible musical outbursts from Spader and Kim Richards. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Tuff Turf is the worst teenage exploitation movie since "Where the Boys Are". Read full review

Gene Siskel

Responsible for this trash is director Fritz Kiersch, and remember that name. Last year Kiersch gave us one of 1984`s worst films, his adaptation of Stephen King`s ''Children of the Corn.'' Now, with Tuff Turf, Kiersch has made the ''worst'' list two years in a row. Read full review

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carlossolrac

Nov 12, 2019

Spader as a tough guy but rich guy from CT who moves to CA and has to take on the jerks at his local HS. Thought the dad going from CC to driving a cab was a bit of a stretch. Also, loved the mom in COCKTAIL. Movie was everything the 80's movies want us to be. Preview to the right on film isSpader as a tough guy but rich guy from CT who moves to CA and has to take on the jerks at his local HS. Thought the dad going from CC to driving a cab was a bit of a stretch. Also, loved the mom in COCKTAIL. Movie was everything the 80's movies want us to be. Preview to the right on film is not same film btw. What film is that looks terrible. Hi.… Expand

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