Tuff Turf stars James Spader as Morgan, a young man who moves to Los Angeles with his family and starts at a new school, there he makes friends with another young man named Jimmy (Robert Downey Jr) and is attracted to a young girl named Frankie (Kim Richards) but Frankie is promised to another young man named Nick (Paul Mones), head of a gang called the Tuffs and they don't like people messing with their Turf.
Tuff Turf was a film that I really enjoyed, primarily for three reasons:
- The first is the performances, it was an utter joy to see Downey and Spader in early roles and watching them here it's easy to see why they've had long careers over the years, the two play off each other very well in the small number of scenes they share together and Spader himself is just great.
- This leads me to my second point, watching him in this role I was reminded of the classic James Dean archetype of the Rebel without a Cause and the film as a whole felt a lot like a modern day Dean type character arc combined with that punk rock style of the 80's and the two styles blended together very well though it does get very violent in the final climax.
- And the third and last reason is the killer soundtrack with some great 80's pop music that nicely fit the style of the overall film, I particularly liked the title song performed by Southside Johnny and I was grooving along when it came on in the film.
So all in all, I had a great time watching Tuff Turf and there's a nice easter egg for you Avengers fans in there which I won't dare spoil but will have you smiling but the rest of the film is great as well and it comes highly recommended, 4 out of 5.
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