1987 Directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs
Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she has found. Gina is too busy videotaping everything to really notice. When the final party at Pacifica College kicks off, things do not go exactly as planned.
Tim Gilbert Alan Oliney Spice Williams-Crosby John Escobar Christine Anne Baur Geoff Brewer Noon Orsatti Christopher Doyle Dennis Madalone Sherry Peterson
La noche de la graduación, Uma Noite de Loucuras, Nachtschwärmer, 月光舞会, 캠퍼스 야간 파티
USAPG-13
USA
If you saw the poster or title and thought to yourselves, You know what? I bet Todd Field, the director of TÁR, is in this then you'd be absolutely correct. I admit this is just a coincidence on my part. I decided to watch it entirely for that poster.
Written and directed by a woman (co-writer's gender unknown, but that person wrote one episode of Power Rangers: Ninja Storm) and starring a stacked (this happened to be a coincidental pun that happened after I wrote this) cast of beautiful women. Not only that, but a couple of the men who show up are quite the surprise for TV and film fans.
The Allnighter has Susanna Hoffs, Joan…
Rewatched with commentary by Tamar Simon Hoffs and Susanna Hoffs
Tamar Simon Hoffs is Susanna Hoffs' mother, in case you didn't know, and she wrote, directed, and produced the film. Susanna is probably more known as a member of the all-girl rock band The Bangles.
Susanna starts by saying that for the commentary she has laryngitis, so that's why her voice is the way it is.
Tamar said she saw Joan Cusack in My Bodyguard and thought he would be terrific.
LA Times critic Sheila Benson told Tamar that Dedee Pfeiffer was a marvelous actress who at that time had only been in a horror movie, Vamp (you can read my review for Dedee's (and others') commentary on that movie,…
A perfect New Year's flick, color-splashed full-bore fun-loving 80s-on-overdrive feelgood party movie about some gal pals out for one last blast after graduation, available here.. I.....kind of hit the confetti bomb jackpot for the occasion; a Modern Girls-style extravaganza, this has it all. ONE CRAZY NIGHT: interior neon and liquid sculpture and pictures and clothes (?) pinned to the wall, drinkin champagne from the bottle, SYNTH POP and PUNK ROCK soundtrack, a lot of Dayglo/pastel wearing and tippin shades and surfin and evening parties by the beach, wacky hijinks and chipper girl talk about life and love, crying to DOO WOP and doing MOTIVATIONAL DANCE IN MIRROR to ARETHA FRANKLIN, vibe dancing under color wheel lights to Ravi Shankar-inspired psychedelic…
After putting The Allnighter into my 24/7 playlist, it's easily become one of my favorites. And after getting the Blu-ray, as promised many moons ago I finally took the time to take a lot of screenshots. Apparently when you don't have high speed internet like me, it's impossible to upload 99 images all at once (plus I lost internet many times over the course of watching and trying to upload), so I had to go through and pick only the best ones (still a lot, mostly of Dedee) and upload a few at a time. Now when I decide to change my profile picture, if I choose to stop being a Flashdancer, I can be an Allnighter!
Most importantly from…
Checked this out because of Dedee Pfeiffer's memorable performance in Vamp (1986) which I just saw before this. She did this film a year after and since it's on YouTube I decided to watch it.
This movie is pure 80s silliness. Is it bad? Yes, probably. But there's so much to enjoy. First off, some things that are in the film: a beach party with a live rock band, surfing, neon signs shaped like palm trees, a Pam Grier cameo, a drive near the beach, lasagne, being locked out on someone elses balcony, hookers and women that are being mistaken for hookers, cheesy 80s pop-rock, last day as a college student, Joan Cusack constantly recording with a video-camera ...
Overall I had fun with it. It's one of these "Last day of school/college" movies of which there are a bunch. Silly 80s cheese.
This kinda felt like the kind of thing we'll see when AI inevitably starts cranking out entire movies. Like, all the pieces are there, and it almost convinces you that it was created by humans, but there's just something slightly off, some uncanny absence that you can't quite put your finger on.
So the Chat GPT prompt for this one was 'mildly wacky/mildly wistful misadventure-strewn final day of college hangout film'. And what resulted was a version of that movie which somehow feels like it's afflicted with a low-grade depression. And it's not just the specter of change and transition informing that vibe. The general affect of the film feels sanded down to the point of listless, aimless inertia. As…
This film is a victim of bad marketing, it's portrayed as a fun loving college beach comedy, but it's more of a female friendship drama. Which isn't a bad thing but I probably would have liked it better if it was more properly advertised, this definitely needs a rewatch before I can review it fully.
A dated movie about 3 uninteresting girls (Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer and Joan Cusack) on their last night of college. There is a lot wrong with this movie but their knucklehead cliche surfer boyfriends are the worst. No personality whatsoever.
Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles stars in this comedy/romance about a group of friends onvthe eve of their college graduation.
Hoffs is the best thing about this movie, actually Hoffs on the movie poster is the best thing about this movie. I’d say it didn’t age well, but I really don’t think it was very good in 1987 either.
Hoffs’ mother directed this as well.
The Allnighter is a "One day in the lives of..." style comedy that follows a group of college seniors on the eve of their graduation, centralized around an all-night college beach party.
I thought this would be more of a sex comedy, but this is more of a rom-com. It has a kind of loose-hanging narrative, almost a "hangout" vibe that tries to provide a snapshot of a time and a feeling of that second "coming-of-age" juncture that happens in your twenties, as seen through an 80s SoCal lens.
Not all the comedic hijinx land, not all the characters are interesting, and this feels a bit dramatically inert before the final act. Still, I think The Allnighter is good enough…
