Young Lust is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Gary Weis and starring Fran Drescher and Mews Small. It was co-financed by Paramount.
Young Lust | |
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Directed by | Gary Weis |
Written by | Bruce Wagner Robin Menken |
Produced by | Robert Stigwood George Van Noy |
Starring | Fran Drescher Mews Small |
Cinematography | Patrick Williams |
Production companies | Robert Stigwood Organisation Paramount |
Distributed by | Paramount |
Release date | 1984 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
It was an early script by Bruce Wagner and was never theatrically released. It was a spoof of soap operas.[1]
The film was part of a slate of projects that Paramount rushed into production. In April 1982 the film was tentatively meant to come out in May.[2] In June 1982 Paramount said they had no plans to release it.[3]
A May 1983 article said the film "was such a mess that it has yet to be officially delivered to Paramount."[4]
Bruce Wagner later said "I think the director was having some problems at the time with the studio and it was never released. It was a protracted death because a year was spent editing it." Wagner says after a year he was approached to work on the movie for reshoots. "That was also the year where a lot of movies like Young Doctors in Love and raucous comedies like National Lampoon’s Vacation [were released] and this movie... was very transgressive. The fact that it was not made informed a lot of my future work in writing about failure and shame. I certainly would have written about those things anyway, but in terms of my Hollywood experience, my entrée was one of defeat rather than of triumph."[5]
Wagner said "That experience formed a template of failure and humiliation that has been a mother lode for me. Those were aspects of career not personal anguish that I drew from."[6]
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