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Moving Violations movie poster |
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| Directed by | Neal Israel |
| Produced by | Joe Roth Harry J. Ufland |
| Written by | Neal Israel, Pat Proft (screenplay) Paul Boorstin, Sharon Boorstin (story) |
| Starring | John Murray Jennifer Tilly Brian Backer Sally Kellerman Nedra Volz Clara Peller Wendie Jo Sperber |
| Music by | Ralph Burns |
| Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
| Editing by | Tom Walls |
| Studio | SLM Production Group |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | April 19, 1985 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $10,600,000 (USA) |
Moving Violations is a 1985 comedy film starring John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, Brian Backer, Sally Kellerman, Nedra Volz, Clara Peller, Wendie Jo Sperber and Fred Willard. It was directed by Neal Israel. It is notable for starring the lesser-known siblings of many famous actors, and being the film debut of Don Cheadle.
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The film follows a group of people in Los Angeles, who after being ticketed for numerous traffic violations and as a result lose their licenses and driving privileges (and their vehicles impounded), are ordered by Judge Nedra Henderson to attend a driving course program in order to get their licenses and their vehicles back. However, the assigned teacher for this course, Deputy Henry "Hank" Halik, is also conspiring with the judge (Sally Kellerman) in a plan to make sure these offenders fail miserably, and at any cost, making one of the offended individuals, landscaper Dana Cannon, very suspicious of their scheme and enlisting his fellow students to expose their plot to sell their impounded vehicles.
The trailer contains several scenes and lines of dialogue that were not in the final film, including the traffic school classroom scene with the offending drivers, in which the classroom is much smaller than the one featured in the actual film.
Writer and director Israel himself attended traffic school.[1]
The film was reviewed poorly by Janet Maslin at The New York Times, who described it as an "especially weak teen-age comedy even by today's none-too-high standards."[1] In a later appraisal, David Nusair of Reelfilm.com wrote that Moving Violations contains "enough laughs to be had here to warrant a mild recommendation."[2]
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