A budding female race-car driver finally meets her racing idol and unbelievably they fall in love...a love that's quickly put to the test when, having received the chance to show her racing talents, the two find themselves in a race for a multi-million dollar sponsorship contract.
Dana Dru Evenson Eddie Hice John Alden Debbie Evans William T. Lane Everett Creach Paul M. Lane James Winburn Roydon Clark
College in calore, Levada da Breca, Lesbienne, Tomboy - Junge, was für ein Mädchen, Девчонка-сорванец, 假小子
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It has one hell of a good opening but that doesn’t make up for it stealing the entirety of it’s plot from Flashdance.
Still kind of takes your breath away to see a film so staggeringly sexist. Purports to be a film about a tomboy teen girl with an interest in being a mechanic, but it's really just a ploy to show how she goes braless.
Should have known from the opening credits that show her soaping up in the shower. You begin to wonder if this is a porn film with the naughty bits edited out.
Betsy Russell is cute, charming and hot. Her friend is ditzy but likable. There's a sleazy rich guy. There's another guy that seems like he's going to be a jerk but turns out to be ok. Basically every female in this movie shows her breasts...actually I can't think of one that didn't. There's also a pretty dude's ass so I guess that balances things out a little.
Besty on a motorbike being chased by a muscle car, Betsy being a mechanic, Betsy playing basketball (complete with high fives!!), Betsy in a car race, Betsy crashing a dirt bike into a river, Betsy falling in love, Betsy boxing with a dude, Besty showering, Betsy kneeing a guy in the groin, and finally, Betsy showing that girls can do everything that guys can do....as long as they show their boobs a lot.
Shamelessly riffing most of its narrative beats from Flashdance, but instead of Kevin Bacon dancing, it's the world's slowest stock car race, Tomboy is a real slice of endearing and exploitative 80s B-movie nonsense, a typically silly romantic sex comedy, filled with poor acting, bizarre direction and weirdly high-energy bangers on its soundtrack. Director Herb Freed offers oodles of cheap titillation which often left me equal parts wincing as it did laughing at how inept someone can be when it comes to directing this sort of thing, an exceptionally sweet Betsy Russell acting circles around the rest of the cast even when her character is one-note and completely irrational, a naff 'battle of the sexes' storyline that hilariously mishandles its…
While the average movie watcher may not recognize the name Betsy Russell (Private School, Cheerleader Camp), those of us males who grew up in the 1980s, weaned on hours of dedicated cable viewing, know her as something akin to a goddess in the world of dumb, teen comedies for basically two reasons...she was hot and she didn't seem to mind showing some skin. This is just a classic fun 80's romp.
Die "heutige" Generation kanzelt und stempelt diesen Streifen mit sehr hoher Warscheinlichkeit als sexistischen Schund ab. Weil? Nun - es vergehen keine fünf Minuten indem irgendein weiblicher Darsteller nicht ihre Möppes in die Kamera halten darf/muss(?). Und da die meisten männlichen Darsteller hier nur notgeile Dullies spielen dürfen, ist das natürlich Wasser auf die Mühlen der Social Justice Warriors. Ansonsten muss ich auch gestehen, dass für eine lockere 12er Freigabe hier extrem viel nackte Haut (nicht nur von weiblicher Seite her) gezeigt wird und man ständig mit sexuellen Anspielungen und Dialogen genötigt wird. Da kann man schonmal gerne erstaunt sein.
Handlungstechnisch erwartet einen sowas wie eine Art "Bootleg" Flashdance Variante, nur natürlich einige Qualitätsstufen drunter, is ja klar..
Ich gestehe,…
Having recently watched Speed Racer, the final race in this was especially underwhelming.
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Tomboy (1985)
Tomboy - Junge, was für ein Mädchen
It's not just a man's world anymore.
Es ist nicht mehr nur eine Männerwelt.
Es ist oberflächlich, es macht Spaß und es versucht nie, mehr zu sein als es ist...
Eine willensstarke Stock-Car-Fahrerin fordert ihren chauvinistischen Schwarm zu einem Rennen heraus, um seinen Respekt zu gewinnen - und ihn ins Bett zu bekommen...
Hätte ich diesen Film schon vor 40 Jahren gesehen, dann hätte er vielleicht eine höhere Wertung erhalten. Allerdings freuts mich auch jedes mal besonders, wenn ich heutzutage, eine mir bislang entgangene 80er Perle entdecken kann.
Hier schreit einfach alles 80er Jahre! Musik, Zeitgeist, Frauenbild, Jungs und ihre Boliden. Alles flott und schmissig inzseniert, zudem…
Aka Old fashioned problematic sexist 80’s comedy #4,879
A lot of reviewers say the plot is the same as Flashdance. Um, what? In Flashdance, you have a girl who is a welder by day, exotic dancer by night but wants to be a proper dancer (ballerina). Then she falls in love with a guy (who is not a dancer). In Tomboy, there's a girl who's a car mechanic. She doesn't even want to race cars (professionally). She just likes the hobby or having a fast car. Then she meets a racecar driver and they both race to see who's better. The only real similarities between the two films are that they're both girls, they fall in love, and Flashdance starts with Alex riding her bike across the city…
“Disgusting. You’re disgusting!”
One of those films that is so ‘80s in its approach and aesthetic that it’s a joy to discover now. Betsy Russell plays the titular tomboy who loves building and racing cars more than she loves being girly. Her boobs get revealed many times, but she’s nonchalant about it. The one sex scene is much more focused on the man’s chiseled abs and supple rear end. His skin looks softer and more luscious than hers; with the body building posters on the wall, I don’t think this is unintentional. It’s like, you want to see a sexy tomboy? Just look at this actual boy!
The follow-up montage of them at the park and on water slides is…
"What would you say to a little fuck?"
"Me? I'd say, 'Goodnight, little fuck.'"
Definitely a product of its time, Tomboy has its cake by showing us that a woman can be a gearhead and a racecar driver while it eats said cake by showing us her and nearly every other woman in the movie's bodies. Betsy Russell's fun to watch, though, and I'm guessing that she's the appeal of this one for most everyone who watches it.
