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Losin' It (1983) 4.7
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Metascore: 51/100
Reviews: 14 user | 4 critic | 4 from Metacritic.com Set in 1965, four rowdy teenage guys travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of partying when they are joined by a heartbroken housewife who is in town seeking a quick divorce. Director:Curtis Hanson |
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Wendell
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Kathy
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Teen sex comedy set in 1965 which follows four Los Angeles school friends, Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell and the series of misadventures they get into when they travel south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to settle a pact to lose their virginity before the night is over, while a young woman, named Kathy, accompanies them for different reasons: to arrange a quick divorce from her husband. Written by <pataygs@voicenet.com>
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teen sex comedy | teenager | group shower | male in a shower | cult film |Taglines:
The last word about the first time. See more »Parents Guide:
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22 April 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Woody: She was dead on top of the gearshift.
Dave: You know the same guy!
Woody: No, the same story.
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The movie's opening prologue states: "A Long Time Ago In A High School Not So Far Away...". See more »Goofs
Towards the end of the junkyard scene when Wendell was to drive Dave out of the junkyard, there's a mid-'70s Oldsmobile Cutlass in the background. See more »Quotes
Dave: I heard about this guy who got some spanish flies for his girlfriend, because she wasn't putting out. He gave her one and stopped at a liquor store or something, and when he came out guess what he found?Woody: She was dead on top of the gearshift.
Dave: You know the same guy!
Woody: No, the same story.
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Losin' It is the film that Tom Cruise got first billing in. On the strength of being more than noticed in Endless Love, Taps, and The Outsiders, Cruise got the lead in this minor teen comedy that made quite a bit of money back in the day.
Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, and John Stockwell are three high school kids from the Eisenhower years who are looking to have a good time in Tijuana. Unfortunately they can't make the trip without John P. Navin who is Stockwell's brother because Stockwell came up short of cash.
Along the way the three of them pick up Shelley Long who is a young married who runs a convenient store on the way with her husband. Our three heroes just happen on her store when she's having a knockdown drag-out with her husband, culminating in Long walking out on her husband to hitching a ride to Tijuana to get a quickie Mexican divorce.
The rest of the film is about their adventures in Tijuana and their escape from there. I do say escape because Stockwell and Haley get into some serious trouble down there in separate incidents. They manage to get some marines on liberty down there mad at them and they fall into the hands of a crooked Tijuana cop played by Henry Darrow who really likes jamming up young Yanqui snot nose kids.
Cruise has an adventure of a different sort with Shelley Long in her pre-Cheers days. He's the only one who gets some enjoyment from Tijuana.
If there's a moral here, there's two of them. First there's no such thing as Spanish fly and second Tijuana is not a good place if you don't know the ropes.
After this Tom Cruise did Risky Business which cemented him as a teen idol and after that All the Right Moves which proved he was not only a box office draw, but a very capable actor.
As for Losin' It, it's an average teen sex comedy without the presence of Tom Cruise would barely be remembered.