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Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2026 / 1 Comment / andrew dice clay , cannon , comedy , dana olsen , eighties , gordon jump , jonna lee , judd nelson , ronald lacey , teen , walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

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</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/bclub.html">THE BREAKFAST CLUB</a> made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br>
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That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

andrew dice clay, cannon, comedy, dana olsen, eighties, gordon jump, jonna lee, judd nelson, ronald lacey, teen, walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting s...

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s852/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9-8W7qnc96S79clT44fiVOCjtmuEhW0zkzGvVII6XfCNG_yQIsm_77bzuQcESnkljXPu1Wuzd8WTTVqHzWxVuKq1EP4TFbzTd0xypEwIEoeWmGfCxU-jP0_Nh7AUfNBto6vzGwpzuhLrX02c6r3THpGgmL7UpVcSFwOsRFYdGxEStlf_SZiygUrIdKxqb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he appeared on stage for THE GONG SHOW, he was really a sack comedian: covering his face with a generic paper bag with poked holes for eyes and one for the mouth: And thus all those corny jokes became funnier, and with a skinny body nervously meandering around the stage, a cult star was born...<br><br>And eventually, finally unmasked, it was time for a motion picture... despite the fact that low-rent director Jackie Kong's NIGHT PATROL (written by Langston and GONG SHOW co-star Jaye P. Morgan) plays out like exactly what it has become: a straight-to-video train-wreck that only appears on cable stations well past midnight... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew dice clay, billy barty, comedy, cop, cult, eighties, jack riley, jackie kong, jaye p. morgan, linda blair, lori sutton, lou mulford, michelle johnson, murray langston, parody, pat morita, pat paulsen

MURRAY LANGSTON UNKNOWN TRILOGY INCLUDING 'NIGHT PATROL'

Title: NIGHT PATROL Year: 1984 Camp Value: *** Murray Langston is not a hack comedian. Well actually, he is, deliberately... but when he app...

LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Movies from 1992 to 2004</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all time. His edgy persona derived from his origin as a standup comic and, struggling at first, he found his "No Respect" but still, there was something missing...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When he turned fifty, the age most comic-actors would be considered has-beens, he was cast in a now classic golf comedy, CADDYSHACK, that was originally written about the caddies, like ANIMAL HOUSE (with the same co-writers, SHACK director Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney) centered on the Delta fraternity house. It's impossible to imagine the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and the hippie professor (Donald Sutherland) as the focal points, leaving all but one rebellious frat boy in the buried lead role, like Michael O'Keefe's Danny Noonan in CADDYSHACK... But sometimes the side-characters shine brighter than the leads, or at least the most memorable, iconic...</span><br>

andrew dice clay, burt reynolds, cindy williams, comedy, howard stern, john byner, jonathan brandis, nineties, randy quaid, retrospective, rodney dangerfield, sidney j. furie, sport, vinessa shaw, zeroes

LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Movies from 1992 to 2004 Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all ...

PRETTY IN PINK BY JOHN HUGHES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer headline PRETTY IN PINK written by John Hughes</u></td></tr>
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Like GREMINS or BACK TO THE FUTURE is to Steven Spielberg, here's a popular John Hughes movie, one of many during the 1980s, wherein he's the Executive Producer (and in John's case, Writer), not the Director, and if you really look close, it shows: while some of the characters have potential, there's simply no direction at all...<br>

andrew dice clay, andrew mccarthy, annie potts, brat pack, eighties, harry dean stanton, james spader, john hughes, jon cryer, molly ringwald

PRETTY IN PINK BY JOHN HUGHES

Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer headline PRETTY IN PINK written by John Hughes Like GREMINS or BACK TO THE FUTURE is to ...

ANDREW DICE CLAY IN 'THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE'

andrew dice clay, neo noir, nineties

ANDREW DICE CLAY IN 'THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE'

year: 1990 rating: *** This movie seems like something it isn’t – an introduction to Andrew Dice Clay onto the big screen, the at-that-t...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2013 / No comments / 2013 , alec baldwin , andrew dice clay , bobby cannavale , cate blanchett , peter sarsgaard , sally hawkins , woody allen

CATE BLANCHETT IN WOODY ALLEN'S BLUE JASMINE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 rating: ***</td></tr>
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Anyone who's seen Woody Allen’s science-fiction comedy SLEEPER will know he’s a fan of, or completely aware of, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE... But the scene where Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and John Beck imitate the DESIRE cast around a dinner table, set in the middle of a forest, isn’t exactly meant to be serious.<br />
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So forty years later, Allen revamps the classic film based on a Tennessee Williams play, with Blanche Dubois now channeled by Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, who, as we begin, rambles to perfect strangers and has to live in a low-rent apartment with her sister (both were adopted), Ginger.<br />
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Sally Hawkins is the Kim Hunter earthy girl saddled with two Marlon Brando types: a surprisingly serious (and dramatically competent) Andrew Dice Clay as Augie, Sally’s unlucky husband in the backstory and Bobby Cannavale as her blunt boyfriend in the present time, where most of the story takes place.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjobljC4naEuiyyjoCof8s7MLlnAPMQVi6OBX4zERUHqDrlpFGyaTt6MZHCiKklEszIyOdMswk0J6rdxnSrZjU5uzwhoGVlFs5K8BzmmKhJHCfABiIiI-F6gd1_h-SwkBdpiqkI0qVQ-lo/s1600/blue-jasmine-cate-blanchett-alec-baldwin-andrew-dice-clay.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>The flashbacks center on a high-class Jasmine, married to Alec Baldwin’s Hal, a multi-millionaire who, as told in the present story, turned out to be a womanizing thief. In this now-reality Jasmine has no money: popping pills with endless martinis, she must “lower” herself to exist among common human beings. <br />
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Blanchett does a good job as the main/title character, although during her sporadic self-mumbling breakdowns, the tone of the film, an entertaining drama with funny moments, feels awkward and stagy.<br />
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The best scenes have Jasmine trying to survive as a normal person, working menial jobs with the subliminal goal of finding a decent male companion. Although Allen provides a woman so oblivious, it’s difficult to tell if she’s someone to partially root for or completely pity. And a lot of the characters, including Sally and her swarthy companions, often seem like clichés, constantly repeating how much they do or don't have in the bank. <br />
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On a more grounded level is Peter Sarsgaard’s Dwight, the Karl Malden <i>too-good-to-be-true</i> nice guy, providing a beacon light for Jasmine but with a price… And that price is what BLUE JASMINE ultimately strives for… <br />
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With a performance more reminiscent of Gena Rowlands in A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE and/or Sally Kirkland in ANNA than the wonderfully overboard Vivian Leigh role, perhaps this could have made a much better underdog story than a class-based morality tale...<br />
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Or maybe Cate Blanchett’s character deserved more of an arc than a treadmill, and the "kindness of strangers" wouldn't have hurt.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SLEEPER with Allen, Keaton & John Beck parodying A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE </td></tr>
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2013, alec baldwin, andrew dice clay, bobby cannavale, cate blanchett, peter sarsgaard, sally hawkins, woody allen