Out of Bounds
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| Directed by | Richard Tuggle |
| Produced by | John Tarnoff Ray Hartwick Mike Rosenfeld |
| Written by | Tony Kayden |
| Starring | Anthony Michael Hall Jenny Wright Glynn Turman |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | - |
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For the comic strip by Bill Rechin, see Out of Bounds
For the British schoolgirl thriller starring Sophia Myles, Sophie Ward and Celia Imrie go to Out of Bounds (2004 film) .
Out of Bounds is a 1986 film directed by Richard Tuggle and starring Anthony Michael Hall.
[edit] Synopsis
In Out of Bounds, Hall portrays Daryl Cage, an Iowa farm boy whose parents send him to live in Los Angeles with his brother. At the airport, Cage accidentally gets his suitcase full of checkered flannel shirts switched with one containing a drug kingpin's heroin. The drug kingpin has Cage's brother murdered, but the police suspect Cage himself of the crime. Cage seeks vengeance against the kingpin while attempting to clear his own name.
[edit] Other Details and Trivia
Hall had recently achieved fame as the star of a number of "teen" movies, such as Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Weird Science (1985). Hall was eager to avoid being typecast into those roles, and opted to star in Out of Bounds as a way to contrast his previous work.
The film soundtrack featured songs by Stewart Copeland & Adam Ant, Robert Berry, Night Ranger, Belinda Carlisle, The Smiths, The Cult, Sammy Hagar, and Siouxsie & The Banshees.
At least two other short films have been produced with the same title and one made for TV movie (1977) has also shared the name, (as did a 2001 A&E Biography of Mary Kay Letourneau) but none has enjoyed the box-office success of the 1986 film, which earned just over US$5,000,000. Most recently, Sophia Myles played the lead in a British thriller also called Out of Bounds (2004 film) which is set in a remote girls' boarding school.
[edit] External links
- Out of Bounds at the Internet Movie Database
- The Eighties Club Movie Review N-O (note: this link has pop-ups)
