One Crazy Summer

• John Cusack: Hoops McCann
• Demi Moore: Cassandra Eldrich
• Curtis Armstrong: Ack Ack Raymond
• William Hickey: Old Man Beck Ersted
• Joe Flaherty: General Raymond
• Mark Metcalf: Aquilla Beck Ersted
• John Matuszak: Stan
• Kimberly Foster: Cookie Campbell
• Joel Murray: George Calamari
• Matt Mulhern: Teddy Beck Ersted
• Rich Little: Radio DJ Contest
• Kristen Goelz: Squid Calamari
• Bobcat Goldthwait: Egg Stork
• Tom Villard: Clay Stork
• Donald Li Chong freen, bankers
• Jeremy Piven: Ty

One Crazy Summer is an American comedy film from 1986, starring John Cusack and Demi Moore in the lead roles.

Action

The high-school graduate Hoops McCann has not received his basketball scholarship because he wants to study much prefer drawing at the Rhode Iceland School of Design. However, to apply there, he should make a comic about love. Unfortunately, Hoops has never been in love. And because he has more upside so full that he could disappoint his parents, he does not make it to finish the comic. As George, who invites him to Nantucket, an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts to his family over the summer there to get his head a little free help him.

Already on the way to the ferry they meet the young singer and waitress Cassandra followed by a biker gang and wants to have their stolen money. Hoops and George help the young lady and unfortunately lose this money. This money is important so that they can help her grandfather to pay off the mortgage on the land. When he then dies, the situation worsens for them. Although it is the heir of his property, but it is destitute and do not know how it is to raise the U.S. $ 3,000 within a week. Will she be not, she loses both her ​​home and the land. The bank already has an interested in the estate; the rich heir Aquilla Beck Ersted who wants to turn the country into a housing development, including Nobel restaurant.

His son Teddy Beck Ersted is not just an obnoxious guy with a Ferrari, but also harassed Hoops, George and his friends. And he always finds a reason to beat the boys. Unfortunately, a crush teddies pretty blonde girlfriend Cookie still Hoops, but who has eyes only for Cassidy. He impresses her by telling her what he was but for a great basketball player who wants to draw much better. Also Cassidy comes Hoops closer, but she currently has other worries, after all, they must raise the $ 3,000. And here is a cookie mixes and kidnapped Hoops proper into the drive-in theater, where they anbandelt with him. Teddy's friends notice this and let him know so that he is on his way to beat Hoops. However, this may prevent Cassidy, who just comes from a musical performance and offers that Teddy and Hoops should be measured at a basketball duel. Unfortunately, Hoops has lied and is pitifully bad at basketball, then you lose the duel. And shortly before Teddy beaten, Cassidy sprayed some tear gas in his eyes, which can flee, Hoops and his friends.

Disappointed by Hoops lie Cassidy is angry and wants to see him, as they have to earn the money with the help of their musical performances not for now. As Hoops discovered the bad flyer, he has an idea and draws next to a cartoon promotional clip even better flyer, which more and more people pay attention to Cassidy's concert and this then also visit. Cassidy gets thereby the money required and will submit it to the bank, but this informs her that Beck Ersted already took over the mortgage and even the legal owner is.

The friends are horrified and are briefly abandon before, Ack Ack to have an idea. Every year has Teddy Beck Ersted participate and win in the regatta, so that his legacy does not lapse. If he can not win it, lose not only he, but also his father the money, which the mortgage is void and Cassidy can keep their home. The only problem is that a yacht missing. While it can quickly requiring rehabilitation boat be exaggerated, but it needs to be repaired and rebuilt. Once this is achieved, take part in the race and the friends make it even keep up. As then the sail part to an end and the motor is to master the return trip, the friends have prepared a special surprise. You have taken Teddy's Ferrari and installed him in the boat, so that they can avenge not only to Teddy, but also win the regatta.

Grandfather Beck Ersted subsequently disinherited his son and his grandson, and adopt even the mortgage. Even Hoops has finally won. He fell in love for the first time, in Cassidy.

Criticism

The film received rather mixed reviews. So the website RottenTomatoes of 15 reviews counted 9 -evaluated positive, which corresponds to a value of 60 %. Also from 13.820 users evaluated 62% of the film positive. Even during the online film archive IMDb rating which looks similar to a 6.0 out of 10 possible points, with 5,821 votes. (As of 13 May 2011 )

Nina Darnton of The New York Times attested to the film, although some laughs ( Although there are a few jokes at Which you find yourself smiling june ), but criticized that the film was written together brainless and concentrate only on the punchlines. In addition, she added smugly, that the film is the ultimate luxury toy, because it meant nothing. ( This mindless romp written and directed by Savage Steve Holland [ ... ] is a string of set -up punchlines It is the ultimate luxury for the kid who has everything -. . Did a film means nothing )

Pat Graham criticized in the Chicago Reader, that the movie is not really bad ( Not a bad film), but there were a sometimes feeble-minded teen comedy ( occasionally imbecilic teen comedy ), which ruined by the ineradicable propensity for clowning director is ( marred by [ ... ] the director 's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning ). However, he liked Holland's drawings, which reminded him of the cartoonist Max Fleischer. (What Holland does extremely well, though, is apply his animator 's skills to live -action logistics [ ... ] the animated sequences have some of the look and feel of 30s Fleischer )

" Bottomless stupid Klamaukfilm with pitched ideas and a lot of idle; just some animated parts that take the "action", are amusing. "

Production

• Both the actor and the members of the film crew were almost identical to those of the film Lanny turns on.
• For Jeremy Piven, this was one of the first roles. He and John Cusack were roommates who had met the actor classes in Chicago.
• Some locations, such as the Generic High School ( real: Barnstable High School ), the Generic Elemental ( Hyannis West Elementary School) located in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The scene with the ferry was filmed at The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority.
• Hoops McCann was named Glamour Profession Gaucho album from the jazz / funk / rock band Steely Dan, after the protagonist of the song. In the first stanza a basketball fan of this name is mentioned, which deals in the progression of the song with much less reputablen activities.
• Because Savage Steve Holland on the reviews of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert on his latest film turns on Lanny was angry, he recorded two of his rabbits with significant similarity to the critics. Both were to be blown up in the air at the end of the film.
• Savange Steve Holland received his Savage Prefix (Engl. wild) during his high school days on Nantucket, as he and his friends, blonde middle-class boys from the upmarket layer, a fun gear and established himself called Savages.
• John Cusack already hated the previous film Lanny turns on so much that it was difficult to convince him for One Crazy Summer. Holland promised that he would the actors a lot of freedom, so that they could bring in their own ideas. When Holland movie Lanny turns on showed just before the turn of the entire crew, Cusack should be gone after 20 minutes. He was so mad at Holland that he yelled at him and he could not forgive that he had made ​​of him an idiot. During the filming was Lanny turns on but by the professional criticism well received, so Bobcat Goldthwait took one of these reviews and they tacked Cusack in the trailer. However, this changed his mind not really, because later called Cusack Holland only the director and said that the director wanted absolutely have implemented these absurd ideas, which is less his own nature.

Publication

After the film had its U.S. theatrical release on August 8, 1986, it was published in West Germany September 11, 1987 directly to VHS. Only in 2006, the film was released on DVD and celebrated its free-TV premiere on June 3, 2010 to VOX.

On its opening weekend, 3.433 million U.S. dollars were recorded at a total box office earnings of 13.4 million U.S. dollars in 984 cinemas.