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      The Allnighter

      PG-13 1987 1 hr. 48 min. Comedy List
      0% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 37% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A Southern California coed (Susanna Hoffs) parties with her roommates and flirts with a surfer (John Terlesky) next door. Read More Read Less

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      kevin c Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles stars in this comedy/romance about a group of friends onvthe eve of their college graduation. Hoffs is the best thing about this movie, actually Hoffs on the movie poster is the best thing about this movie. I'd say it didn't age well, but I really don't think it was very good in 1987 either. Hoffs' mother directed this as well. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Growing up in the 80s, this movie seemed like it was going to be a hot property. Susanna Hoffs was the it girl of the time, the lead singer of The Bangles, and seeing as how The Allnighter seemed like a teen sex comedy — it's a bit more of a coming of age film, but that wasn't how it was sold — everyone was beyond excited at the potential of seeing, well, a bit more of Ms. Hoffs. Look, we were in the throes of puberty and that type of behavior was still seen as healthy. What we did not know was that her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, was directing the movie, which meant that there was no way we were getting a movie like Mischief. Our heroines — Molly (Hoffs), Val (Deedee Pfeiffer) and Gina (Joan Cusack) are graduating college and starting their real lives, but for one last night, they explore where they are before they get where they are going. Molly wants true love. Val has it, but isn't sure if she wants it. Gina just wants to video tape everything. Actually, if you think about it, Hoffs' character — trapped between an older man who is wrong for her and a young man who is wrong but a bit more right — is a lot like Lelaina Pierce in Reality Bites, while Cusack's non-stop filming and commenting on the lives of everyone else takes a bit of that character and Vickie Miner as well. C.J., one of the boys in this movie, is of course John Terlesky from Chopping Mall, Deathstalker II and Appointment with Death. Michael Ontkean — Sherriff Harry S. Truman — is also on hand, as are Pam Grier and Meshach Taylor in quick cameos. And Edge of the Axe fans — well, that'd be me — Christina Marie Lane is in this in an extra role. Oh yeah — Killer's date at the party, listed as Debi Lester — is adult film queen Debi Diamond. I don't know what it says about me that I instantly recognized her. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Great teen movie takes me back Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Susanna Hoffs in panties, enough said Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member In the 80s, I had a crush on Bangles lead singer, Susannah Hoff. Although she can look good for a short music video that doesn't mean she can act, although I'm sure the director (her mother) disagrees. What is left is a wannabe teen sex comedy masquerading as an elongated episode of Saved By the Bell. Everyone seems like they're trying to make this film work, but the script has the maturity level of a middle-school student. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Susanna Hoffs, la líder del grupo de pop-rock femenino The Bangles, protagoniza esta comedia sobre adolescentes y sexo, dirigida por la madre de Hoffs (!!!), en la que abundan las malas actuaciones y las situaciones poco graciosas y hasta misóginas. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Janet Maslin New York Times Mrs. Hoffs should not make jokes about film making. Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Pat Graham Chicago Reader Hard to say what this is really, except maybe an inadvertent documentary on child abuse. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Richard Harrington Washington Post A perfectly dreadful film whose chief selling point is that it's the first starring role for Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs and that the director is none other than Mom, Tamar Simon Hoffs. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The Allnighter is so vapid on every level that it makes those 1960s beach party flicks look as deep as The Seventh Seal by comparison. Rated: 1/4 Feb 19, 2021 Full Review Kathi Maio Sojourner [A] truly bad film. Aug 28, 2019 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Oct 3, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A Southern California coed (Susanna Hoffs) parties with her roommates and flirts with a surfer (John Terlesky) next door.
      Director
      Tamar Simon Hoffs
      Production Co
      Universal/Universal Int
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Aug 3, 2010
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $2.4M
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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