Name a movie that should have been a flop but became a hit based on word of mouth [View all]
My contribution is "Porky's. It was a teen film that hit high on raunch and seemed to be a release gasket for a generation of young adults. I distinctly remember the surprise at seeing the characters "going there" and getting swept away with the convulsive laughter that erupted in the theater. Probably the only movie that I went to that sustained a high laugh meter throughout the movie. Audience reaction is one of the reasons why I go to see blockbusters.
Porky's is a 1981 Canadian-American sex comedy film, written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954. Released in the United States in 1982 with an R rating, the film spawned three sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), Porky's Revenge! (1985), and Pimpin' Pee Wee (2009), and influenced many writers in the teen film genre.
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