1981 · comedy · revenge · coming-of-age
Porky's
Directed by Bob Clark1h 34m1981
In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.
Our read: Porky's (1981) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · revenge · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / revenge, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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