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Genres:
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Comedy /
Fantasy /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Rod Daniel
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Actors:
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James Hampton,
Scott Paulin,
Mark Arnold,
Jerry Levine,
Matt Adler,
Jim McKrell,
Elizabeth Gorcey,
Lorie Griffin,
Susan Ursitti,
Jay Tarses,
Melanie Manos,
Charles Zucker,
Michael J. Fox,
Mark Holton,
Doug Savant
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(5.5/10)82.5
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Plot Summary:
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Teen discovers that puberty as a remedy for him means he turns into a werewolf. One of the profitable side effects is that it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. But will his notoriety bring in him his friends and can he judge true rapture?
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Teen Wolf
A company of werewolves cause trouble in this blackly comic 1980s horror movie from Joe Dante
Horror movies often arrive in packs, as if filmmakers simultaneously experience the same collective nightmares. In the early 1980s, the werewolf returned from obscurity and a new breed of lycanthropes made the most out of contemporary advances in special effects. Joe Dante's The Howling was arguably the leader of the pack, arriving in 1981, closely followed by its more famous cousin An American Werewolf In London (1981) and a slew of other wolf movies: Full Moon High (1981), Silver Bullet, Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video (1983), Teen Wolf (1985), and several others.
Co-written by John Sayles (with whom Dante had previously coll...
Teen Wolf
While Teen Wolf didn't quite compel howls of guffawing, its innocuous wisecracks did benefit greatly from the light comic...
Teen Wolf
In this friendly, if lightweight, comedy, a teenager who longs to be a little less odd discovers a family curse that kicks in when the Moon is complete. Beneath the facial fur, this is just another film almost growing pains, although it does looks cinema's only werewolf flay dunk sports sequence. As the unfortunate boy, the ever engaging Michael J Fox is doing what he does nicest — turning a dud into a prizewinner. Jason Bateman took on in the superfluous development Teen Wolf Too, after Back to the Days stimulus Fox to superstardom.
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