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6.1/10
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A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
Vince Grant
- JoeBob
- (as Vincent Grant)
Paige Price
- Karen
- (as Paige Lyn Price)
Jean De Baer
- Mary Beth MacWilliams
- (as Jean DeBaer)
Chad Wiggins-Grady
- Chad Bob
- (as Chad Wiggins)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShannon Presby's final film role. Shortly after completing the film, he decided to give up acting.
- GoofsDuring the shower scene, Abby is wearing a vest to hide her nudity. (4:3 Open Matte version only)
- Alternate versionsThe 1988 UK Columbia video (released as "Striking Back") was cut by 54 secs by the BBFC to edit drug scenes, a shot of a girl's underwear being removed and a scene of girl being covered in lighter fluid.
- ConnectionsReferenced in SOS (1988)
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Entertaining high school revenge flick
Brother and sister Loren (Shannon Presby) and Abby (Lori Loughlin) find their lives turned upside down when their parents are killed in a car crash. Off they go to live with eccentric Uncle Charlie (Eddie Jones) at his rundown Santa's Funland amusement park in Florida. Naturally, they become the target of the local bullies led by Eddie Dutra (James Spader, with bleach blonde hair, horrific shirts and ridiculous accent). After slaughtering teens in Friday THE 13TH (1980), producer-director Sean Cunningham took it easy on them in SPRING BREAK (1983). Since that didn't deliver Friday level returns, he jumped back into the dead kids genre but with a 80s revenge motif rather than stalk-n-slash. This is about what you would expect from the time period save a nasty mean streak of violent death that sets it apart from something like bully classic THE KARATE KID (1984). Cunningham goes out of his way to make sure you never see the heroes kill anyone directly. I guess that is why they are the good guys? The film ends with the ridiculous coda of the Uncle's theme park thriving because of the shootout that happened there and a younger sibling of those offering a stare that can only mean THE NEW KIDS II. It never happened.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Army Brats
- Filming locations
- Hotel Redland, 5 S Flagler Ave, Homestead, Florida, USA(where Uncle Charlie picks up the kids)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $199,108
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $199,108
- Jan 20, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $199,108
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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