JOCKS(1986) MOVIE PAGE




JOCKS(1986)
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You would think with a name like "Jocks" that
it would be about football or maybe basketball,
but nope, it's about tennis!!! And the "jocks"
are anything but! What they are is misfits in
a misfit movie! Really kind of dumb!!

This has two really good actors in it, Richard
Roundtree(Shaft, Heroes) and the great Christopher
Lee(Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars Episode II & III,
several stints as Dracula and Sherlock Holmes)
in totally wasted parts!!! C

From a reviewer at IMDb.com:

"Jocks" was filmed in 1984 and subsequently
spent a few years on the shelf before getting
released. Watching it, it's easy to guess
why that happened. First, the "humor" in
this movie isn't all that funny - it resorts
to tired gags about people driving falling-apart
cars and transvestites. Also, there are
surprisingly a number of moments when the
movie doesn't even seem to be trying to be
funny - it's about half serious most of
the time, in fact. The characters are
uninteresting for the most part, save
for Donald Gibb's character, which seems
to have been lifted from another, more
humorous and energetic movie. The tennis
sequences are dull, relying on the same
two camera angles over and over. As for
the "R" rated material, most people I
think will be disappointed - for the
first hour, there is NOTHING beyond
a "G" rating other than utterances of
the words "t*ts" and "s*hit". Then there
is some wet t-shirt and topless stuff,
but none of it is displayed for very
long. The only audience for this movie
might be for die-hard Christopher Lee
fans, since this is one of his rare
appearances in a comedy - or should
I say so-called comedy. - Wizard-8


Cast:

Scott Strader ... The Kid
Perry Lang ... Jeff
Mariska Hargitay ... Nicole
Richard Roundtree ... Chip Williams
R.G. Armstrong ... Coach Bettlebom
Stoney Jackson ... Andy
Adam Mills ... Tex
Trinidad Silva ... Chito
Donald Gibb ... Ripper (as Don Gibb)
Tom Shadyac ... Chris
Christopher Murphy ... Tony
Katherine Kelly Lang ... Julie
Christopher Lee ... President White
Faith Minton ... Big woman in bar (uncredited)
Garth Shaw ... Casino Gambler (uncredited)


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