Shout (1991)

Director:

Jeffrey Hornaday

Writer (WGA):

Joe Gayton (written by)

Release Date:

4 October 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Musical

Tagline:

Rock & Romance Explode In A Texas Town.

Plot:

A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys. |

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Teacher | Music Teacher | Boys' School | Dance

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

John Travolta	...	Jack Cabe
Jamie Walters	...	Jesse Tucker (as James Walters)
Heather Graham	...	Sara Benedict
Richard Jordan	...	Eugene Benedict
Linda Fiorentino	...	Molly
Scott Coffey	...	Bradley
Glenn Quinn	...	Alan
Francis von Zerneck	...	Toby (as Frank von Zerneck)
Michael Bacall	...	Big Boy
Sam Hennings	...	Travis Parker
Gwyneth Paltrow	...	Rebecca
Kristina Simonds	...	Rachel
Charles Taylor	...	Deputy
Paula Bellamy-Franklin	...	Orphanage Cook / Additional Voices (voice)
Jerry Tullos	...	Bandstand M.C.
Julie Ariola	...	Girl's Home Director
Charles Fowlkes	...	Eyes
Patrik Baldauff	...	Mr. Hawkins
Redmond Gleeson	...	Minister (as Redmond M. Gleeson)
Renee Tenison	...	Girl in Bar
Chris Blasman	...	Orphan
Michelle Johnston	...	Loretta
Linda M. Womack	...	Singer
Cecil D. Womack	...	Lead Singer
Jeremy Jackson	...	Young Bell Ringer
James Avery	...	Midnight Rider (voice)
Keith Anthony	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Lee Arnone	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Catherine Battistone	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Robert Bergen)
Elizabeth Anne Bowen	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Roger Aaron Brown	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Alex Daniels	...	Additional Voices (voice)
William O. Dekle	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Roger DeWitt	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Roger E. DeWitt)
Claudette Duffy	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Mary Ellen Dunbar	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Carlo Lonny Eaton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Tom Fahn	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Valérie Franco	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rod Gist	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Ron L. Gist)
David Glasser	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Angel Harper	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Kirsten Holmquist	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Shirley Jordan	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Marcello Krakoff	...	Additional Voices (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tera Hendrickson	...	(uncredited)
Thom Ward	...	Orphan (uncredited)

Directed by
Jeffrey Hornaday

Writing credits (WGA)
Joe Gayton		(written by)

Produced by
Lindsley Parsons Jr.	....	executive producer
Robert Simonds	....	producer

Original Music by
Randy Edelman

Cinematography by
Robert Brinkmann

Film Editing by
Seth Flaum

Casting by
Nancy Nayor

Production Design by
William F. Matthews

Art Direction by
P. Michael Johnston

Set Decoration by
Jim Duffy

Costume Design by
Eduardo Castro

Makeup Department
Dino Ganziano	....	hair stylist
Jim Kail	....	makeup artist (as James R. Kail)
Francine Shermaine	....	additional hair stylist
Kenneth Walker	....	additional hair stylist (as Ken Walker)

Production Management
Lindsley Parsons Jr.	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alan Edmisten	....	second assistant director
Pat Kehoe	....	first assistant director (as Patrick H. Kehoe)

Art Department
Craig B. Ayers Sr.	....	greensman
Sterling Bingham	....	stand-by painter
Kirk S. Heinlen	....	assistant property master
Steven M. Miller	....	stand-by greensman (as Steve Miller)
Michael Muscarella	....	construction coordinator (as Michael A. Muscarella)
Paul Rylander	....	property master
Terry Shugrue	....	assistant property master
Faye Smith	....	leadperson
James F. Truesdale	....	assistant art director
Ciro Vuoso	....	construction foreman
Kenneth L. Westcott	....	leadperson
Oscar Delgadillo	....	set dresser (uncredited)

Sound Department
Neil Burrow	....	sound editor
Willie D. Burton	....	sound mixer
Jeff Bushelman	....	sound editor
Michael C. Casper	....	supervising re-recording mixer
Blake R. Cornett	....	assistant sound editor
Mike Dobie	....	supervising sound editor
Timothy C. Dobie	....	assistant sound editor (as Timothy Dobie)
Tom Gerard	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Thomas Gerard)
Mark Gordon	....	sound editor
Robert W. Harris	....	utility sound
Rob Hill	....	adr artist
Shelley Rae Hinton	....	adr editor
David L. Horton Jr.	....	sound editor
Jay Kamen	....	supervising adr editor (as Uncle J. Kamen)
Daniel J. Leahy	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Daniel Leahy)
Richard LeGrand Jr.	....	adr editor
Marvin E. Lewis	....	boom operator
Larry Mann	....	supervising sound editor
Debbie Peterson	....	assistant sound editor
Charles Ewing Smith	....	sound editor
Bill Baldwin	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Al Broussard	....	special effects
David Wood	....	special effects

Stunts
Rick Avery	....	stunts
Cindy Folkerson	....	stunts
A. Michael Lerner	....	stunts
Jeff Smolek	....	stunts
Greg Walker	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Moe Altamirano	....	grip
Gregory Beard	....	grip (as Greg Beard)
Al Hewitt	....	dolly grip
Peter Iovino	....	still photographer
Frank Keever	....	key grip (as Frank J. Keever)
William Kenney	....	dolly grip (as William G. Kenney)
T. Sano Kwong	....	best boy grip
Alex Leyton	....	first assistant camera
Brett Mabry	....	electrician
Charles E. Nippell	....	assistant chief lighting technician (as Chas E. Nippell)
Randy Nolen	....	Steadicam operator
Reinhart 'Rayteam' Peschke	....	chief lighting technician (as Reinhart Peschke)
Joe Ritter	....	Steadicam assistant
Bill Roe	....	camera operator
Brian Sata	....	grip
Frank Scheidbach	....	assistant chief lighting technician
John Shoemaker	....	electrician
Thomas Vandermillen	....	second assistant camera
John Ziegler	....	second assistant camera
Simon Jayes	....	crane operator: Technocrane (uncredited)
Bob Rose	....	key grip: second unit (uncredited)

Casting Department
Debbie DeRango	....	casting assistant
Franklyn Warren	....	extras casting
Alysa Wishingrad	....	casting coordinator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Art Brouillard	....	assistant costumer
Roberto Carneiro	....	set costumer (as Roberto M. Carneiro)
Gamila Mariana Fakhry	....	assistant costumer (as Gamila Fakhry)
Laurel Frushour	....	assistant costumer
Lisa Lovaas	....	costume supervisor
Philip Maldonado	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Sandy Brundage	....	negative cutter
Dale Caldwell	....	color timer
Rod Dean	....	assistant editor
William Fletcher	....	assistant editor (as William L. Fletcher)
Jill Smith	....	apprentice editor (as Jill C. Smith)

Music Department
Elton Ahi	....	scoring mixer
Sally Boldt	....	music editor
Gustavo Borner	....	scoring crew
Tom Boyd	....	musician: oboe soloist
Tom Carlin	....	music editor
Dennis Dreith	....	additional composer: score
Dennis Dreith	....	conductor: production numbers
Dennis Dreith	....	music coordinator
Dennis Dreith	....	orchestrator: production numbers
Kathy Durning	....	music editor
Sidney James	....	music coordinator
Rolf Johnson	....	assistant music editor
Karyn Rachtman	....	music supervisor
François Blaignan	....	scoring crew (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Frank 'Cat' Ballou	....	transportation coordinator
Walt Freitas	....	transportation captain (as Walter Freitas)
Dean Winton	....	driver

Other crew
Elena Azuola	....	production auditor
Brian Bettwy	....	production assistant
Dean A. Burnside	....	production assistant
Pat Chapman	....	production coordinator
Joan Edwards	....	assistant: J. Travolta
Joan Eisenberg	....	unit publicist
Allen Ferro	....	title designer: main titles
Judy Hallin	....	assistant production coordinator (as Judy L. Hallin)
Michelle Johnston	....	choreographer
Verla Loomis Randall	....	craft service
Angela Lussier	....	assistant: R. Simonds
Molly M. Mayeux	....	production assistant (as Molly Mayeux)
Lloyd Nelson	....	script supervisor
Nancy Neumann	....	studio teacher
Robert Peters	....	assistant: J. Travolta
Richard Rosenberg	....	location manager
Phillip Schenkler	....	assistant auditor
Daniel Wheatcroft	....	studio executive
Burton Sharp	....	adr group coordinator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Robert Simonds Productions
• Universal Pictures

Distributors

• United International Pictures (UIP) (1992) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (1992) (Argentina) (VHS)
• CIC Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• CIC-Taft Home Video
• GoodTimes Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (Spain)
• Universal Pictures
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD) (Universal Vault Series)

Other Companies

• Central Casting  extras casting
• Cinema Research  titles and optical effects
• Direct Super Vision  music consulting
• Michelson Food Services  catering
• Otto Nemenz International  Arriflex cameras provided by
• Technocrane Ltd.  cranes

Also Known As:

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:PG | Spain:13 | USA:PG-13 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | UK:12 (cinema release) (1991) | UK:12 (re-rating) (2007) | UK:PG (video release) (1992)

Filming Locations:

Circle Drive, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Robert Simonds Productions

Trivia:

Gwyneth Paltrow's film debut.

Quotes:

Alan:What's your name?
Rebecca:Rebecca.
Alan:My name is Alan, and I love you.
[They kiss]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert: Worst of '91" (1992)

Soundtrack:

Appalachian Spring

Nothing is permanent except deterioration

You can try to watch and maybe sometimes you'll feel something like an interest and other emotions. However, 1991 is already too far behind us and movie plot is now too predictable and too lame. While you can enjoy looking at your "best actors" in their primes or youth, you can't ignore general shallowness of presented story, which repeats so many stories with happy or semi-happy end about adolescents going the wrong way. In this case delinquency panacea is rock'n'roll music - which will make you puke with laughter especially if your children are doing crack and porno for pocket money.

Especially lame are scenes related to interracial interaction of young delinquents and afro-Americans. Considering lack of funds to spend and relatively unrestrained behaviour with opposite sex and race I can't image how in real life all them escaped with their lives and unspoiled mood.

Maybe there is a place on Earth where it is possible but somehow it doesn't help the movie.

It's a pity that Travolta had to endure these stupid texts and scenes, which seemingly had to symbolize unity and brotherhood of man. Nowadays they look so simplistic and devoid of reality that I got impression this flick was created by some people who don't know what they are really talking about or wanted to show. It's a well known fact that young criminals are sometimes more dangerous and spontaneous than grown up serial killers. But in this case we see a gang which is as fluffy and soft as band of guinea pigs and could be molded by anybody into anything.

If it would be on soapy side more (like stupid comedy about teenager problems with kissing), probably it would be better. Attempt to mix in drama did not work out at all, but killed all the possibilities to make movie livelier.

However, even in this state it is watchable snapshot of the tip of iceberg lacking other better examples. Some slight hints about racial troubles, negative role of church, victimization in correctional facilities, youth leadership issues can make this flick sufficiently instructive for really dumb parents and their kids. But it's impact is deteriorating with time too fast.

As I said before, the story is too old and too sweet. Life has much more bitter taste for most.