Son in Law (1993)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Steve Rash

Writers (WGA):

Patrick J. Clifton (story) &
Susan McMartin (story) ...

Release Date:

2 July 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

He's a relative nightmare.

Plot:

Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.

Plot Keywords:

Farm | Marriage | School | Country | 90s

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Pauly Shore	...	Crawl
Carla Gugino	...	Rebecca Warner
Lane Smith	...	Walter Warner
Cindy Pickett	...	Connie Warner
Mason Adams	...	Walter Warner Sr.
Patrick Renna	...	Zack Warner
Dennis Burkley	...	Theo
Tiffani Thiessen	...	Tracy (as Tiffani-Amber Thiessen)
Dan Gauthier	...	Travis
Ria Pavia	...	Carol
Lisa Lawrence	...	Lisa
Graham Jarvis	...	Principal
Nick Light	...	Mud Wrestling Announcer
Ernie Kinney	...	Horace
Troy Shire	...	Cowboy

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for elements of sensuality.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | UK:12 (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) (1994) | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Germany:12 | Norway:11 | Sweden:7 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

California State University Northridge - 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

Early in the film, Crawl sings about the Hungry Man TV dinner he is about to eat. Mason Adams, who plays the grandfather, was a voice over announcer at the time the film was released.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Crawl arrives in South Dakota and is chasing the chickens, he almost runs into the pen where the bull is. When he encounters the bull, a wire can be seen pulling on the bull's horns to make his head move.

Quotes:

Crawl: My name's Crawl and I'm the RA. And you are? No wait, don't tell me - Sally? Jessie? Raphael?

Movie Connections:

References "Green Acres" (1965)

Soundtrack:

Fallin' Down

i'm making my friends rent this.

when i first saw that this movie was going to be playing on TV, i only new of pauly shore as this joke of a comedian who wore really weird outfits back in the day. i still decided to watch it and i was impressed. shore brings a fresh breath of air to the screen. in this movie, he plays crawl a college adviser that probably needs his own adviser as well. carla gugino, in an underrated role, plays becca, a midwestern "farm girl" with a simple family and a movie-cliché boyfriend travis. when she heads off to ucla, she meets crawl and he quickly turns her into a bubbly, blonde Californian girl. she decides to bring crawl home for the thanksgiving break. when travis decides to propose, becca needs a distraction. crawl then decides to make everyone believe that him and becca are engaged already. this leads to crawl spicing up the romance between becca's parents, befriending her brother, and even getting the dancers at the local bar to get a little loose. i'm not going to reveal the end, but i liked it. anyway, don't rent it if you want a poignant performance; rent it if you want to laugh your butt of and enjoy an often-missed part of 90's humor.