Nostalgia: Kim Cattrall’s bare booty in Porky’s (1982)

Kim’s colleague rips off her skirt, and they go to town.

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Although Animal House is the grandfather of the genre, Porky’s, released in March of 1982, kinda kicked off the mid-80s golden age of youthsploitation films

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (August, 1982)
Risky Business, My Tutor, The Outsiders, Spring Break (1983)
Revenge of the Nerds, Sixteen Candles, The Karate Kid (1984)
Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, The Sure Thing, The Goonies (1985)
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, One Crazy Summer, Stand By Me (1986)

Did you know … the writer/director of the lowbrow Porky’s (Bob Clark) also directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the beloved holiday classic, A Christmas Story?

The rest of his career was nothing to brag about. It hit its low points with Baby Geniuses (screenplay/director) and Baby Geniuses 2 (director), which are two of the 25 worst-rated films at IMDb. Baby Geniuses 2 is second from the bottom, rated lower than Manos! I guess Clark had exactly two good stories to tell, each probably semi-autobiographical, based on his own memories of growing up in the late 40s and early 50s.

* Although the screenplay for A Christmas Story is based on the anecdotes of Jean Shepherd, Clark co-wrote the screenplay, and obviously related to it. He was born in 1939, and would have been about Ralphie’s age in the 40s, when the story took place.

* As far as Porky’s goes, Clark created it from scratch, and he would have been the age of the protagonists in 1954, when the story takes place.

After he told his two personal coming-of-age stories, he was totally out of material. After those, the only other project he created from scratch was a terrible buddy cop movie called Loose Cannons, which was obviously Clark’s attempt at an artificial genre film, as opposed to the genuine personal reminiscences that he was actually good at.

He passed away in 2007, but A Christmas Story continues to be watched and cherished by many people every December. (Including me.)

3 thoughts on “Nostalgia: Kim Cattrall’s bare booty in Porky’s (1982)

  1. As someone who was going to movies a lot at the time, I would say that what “Porky’s” did was make enough money to make this kind of movie attractive to mainstream studios. Before that, they were in the realm of drive-in movies. The specimen I remember best is “The Pom-Pom Girls” (1976). It was a movie that somehow worked (for me at least) in spite of having very little plot.

    “Malibu High” (1978) and “The Swinging Cheerleaders” (1974) were other typical examples.

  2. There was also My Tutor (1983). I was 15 in 1983 and remember REALLY wanting to see that movie but not being allowed to. Of course if I was 5 or 6 years younger at the time, my dad probably would have TAKEN me to see it. He was infamous for taking us to inappropriate movies. For instance, I was 9 when he took me to see the Kentucky Fried Movie (1977). My sister a year or so ago made some comment about taking her 11-year-old daughter to see 50 Shades. I said “really?” She’s said “of course NOT!!! Who do you think I am, Dad?”

  3. There was also Spring Break. My brother, who was 15 or so at the time, referred to these movies as ‘tit flicks.’

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