Just One of the Guys
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Actor: Billy Jayne, Clayton Rohner, Joyce Hyser, Toni Hudson, William ZabkaBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Just One of the Guys
Movie Review: Dude looks like a lady
Summary: 5 Stars
"Just One of the Guys" has to be one of my favorite movies from the 80's because it is one of the very best movies from this me-loving decade! This movie has it all! Hot girls! Hot guys! Fast cars. H*rny teens. Beaches! But I'm getting ahead of myself...
Joyce Hyser plays Terry Griffith. On the outside she's a typical teenage girl. She's beautiful and often causes her middle aged teachers to stare at her legs. But on the inside, Terry's not the typical brain-dead tramp. She has aspirations of being a writer but her high school teacher dismisses her because of her gender, telling her that she should marry well or find "some other career!"
With the help of her s*x-crazed little brother, Buddy (Billy Jayne, credited as Billy Jacoby,) Terry transforms herself into a rather passable teenage boy (picture, a cross between the Karate Kid and Jo from "The Facts of Life!") Except for a little bit of overacting (I've never seen a guy walk the way she did,) she was able to pull it off. Once Terry is confident that she can pass for a man, she transfers to another school (just for a week) so that she can enter their district writing contest (as a boy) and prove to everyone that she has what it takes!
Over the course of the week at her new school Terry has many pratfalls and adventures. It was so funny when she went to the boys locker room on her first day. On her second day of school she started to meet more people and attract the attention of some unsuspecting girls! That's when she befriended Rick Moorehouse (Clayton Rohner.)
Rick was the same guy who helped Terry on her first day when Greg (William Zabka) picked her up and threw her into some bushes. Greg Tolan was the typical high school bully. I think William Zabka was in just about every 80's movie, playing the same pain in the @ss.
Terry and Rick become fast-friends and Terry vows to help Rick meet some babes. For some reason Rick had difficultly meeting girls. Maybe because he was somewhat shy and introverted. Terry took Rick out and got him some new clothes and he did start to become more popular. Wasn't it so sad and hateful when that dlck-head, Greg poured food all over Rick's new shirt. Terry got it right when she said to Rick, "you should have punched him in the face."
Throughout the week at her new school Terry neglects her boyfriend and starts falling in love with Rick! Things start to really heat up at the prom because Terry and Rick double dated with 2 other girls. But Terry doesn't want to see Rick with any other girl. The sadness and desperation in her eyes was very believable when she saw Rick with his date.
Buddy and Terry's boyfriend show up at the prom just as the resident-bully, Greg Tollen starts picking a fight with poor Terry. It was so funny as Buddy jumped on his back to get him off his sister because Greg was at least twice his size (that totally reminded me of something my little brother would have done.)
Terry finally corners Rick at the prom to tell him that she loves him. Rick is totally confused (he still thinks that Terry is a man who is likely g-a-y.) So what does Terry do? She rips open her shirt to expose her huge knockers! This still doesn't convince Rick, so on the dance floor Terry grabs him and gives him a passionate kiss on his mouth; of course, while all the others look on in disgust. But Rick doesn't want anything to do with her.
Poor Terry is totally down in the dumps. Because I think she realized that what she did had some serious repercussions. Yes, she did get her article. But she also fell in love with another man (and who wouldn't? Rick is so adorable.) Oh well, at least Buddy finally got lucky!
The one thing I would have loved to have heard was Terry's newspaper article. They showed her writing it and they showed her teacher (from her first school) praising it, but that was all. It would have been great to have a voice-over as she was typing so we could have gotten a better idea on what was in her head.
Unfortunately, this film is an extremely underrated movie. (That is evidenced by the fact that it does not have a special edition DVD, it is rarely shown on network TV and because many 80's movie fans do not know about it!) I only first watched this movie a few years ago. I'm not exactly sure why this movie is so unknown. Perhaps the idea of a woman dressing up like a man is hard for people to contemplate; it's not like when a man dresses up as a woman in a movie because that's always done in such a screw-ball way. When a woman dresses up as a man there's usually always a sense of seriousness behind it (another great movie under this same umbrella of inter-dressing is Yentl.)
There are a few crude jokes in the movie. But that just added to it's comedy. Unless you're a total prude you won't be offended! I also love this movie because Terry didn't scream and cry the dreaded and overly-used s*xual harassment. Nope! This gal decided to be proactive (and provocative!) instead of reactive and by doing so she solved her pickle!
Welcome to the 80's!
Summary of Just One of the Guys
She's 18, she's beautiful and she's about to set off an epidemic of comic hysteria when she enrolls in a new high school as JUST ONE OF THE GUYS. Stars Golden Globe nominated actress Sherilyn Fenn ("Twin Peaks").Though marketed as a raunchy teen sex comedy à la Porky's, Just One of the Guys is an amusing and well-acted comic riff on gender roles. Believing that she's lost a journalism contest because she's a woman, high school student Joyce Hyser disguises herself as a boy in order to see how the other half lives. Her investigation leads her to discover some interesting truths about how men and women treat each other in social and romantic situations. The screenplay by coproducers Jeff Franklin (a veteran TV scribe) and Dennis Feldman nicely balances the sex-driven gags with more character-driven material, which is well delivered by Hyser, Clayton Rohner as her eccentric pal, and especially Billy Jacoby as her perpetually aroused brother; the capable cast also includes Sherilyn Fenn and Arye Gross. Eighties music fans should also appreciate the soundtrack, which features tracks by Berlin, Lindsay Buckingham, and the Stooges. --Paul Gaita
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