Losin’ It is a 1982 comedy film directed by Curtis Hanson, and starring Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley and John Stockwell. The film follows four teenagers trying to lose their virginity. It was filmed largely in Calexico, California.
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The film received negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 18% of 11 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.3/10.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews.
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the film on their TV program At the Movies. Siskel called it “dreadful” and “predictable.”
But in a way that’s the point. Others here are proposing young actors who have made single-digit numbers of movies. Pretty easy to have a 100% hit rate when you’ve made 4 movies! Tom Cruise has been making films nonstop for 4 decades.
I’d be tempted to argue that it hits what it was aiming for. It’s meant to be a cheap raunchy Porky’s rip-off, and it succeeds. I suspect Cruise does a good job in it - the year before he did Taps, and the year after he did All the Right Moves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losin'_It
OK that one passes.
But in a way that’s the point. Others here are proposing young actors who have made single-digit numbers of movies. Pretty easy to have a 100% hit rate when you’ve made 4 movies! Tom Cruise has been making films nonstop for 4 decades.
I’d be tempted to argue that it hits what it was aiming for. It’s meant to be a cheap raunchy Porky’s rip-off, and it succeeds. I suspect Cruise does a good job in it - the year before he did Taps, and the year after he did All the Right Moves.