Porky's

Porky's is a 1981 sex comedy film written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers in 1954 at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida.

The film stars Kim Cattrall, Scott Colomby, Kaki Hunter, Nancy Parsons, Alex Karras, and Susan Clark.

In 1954, each boy in a group of Florida Angel Beach High School students plans to lose his virginity.

They go to Porky's, a strip club in the Everglades, believing that they can hire a prostitute to satisfy their sexual desires.

Infuriated, he drops his pants and sticks his penis through the opening just before female coach Beulah Balbricker, who has a running feud with Tommy, walks into the shower area.

This leads to the pair having quickie sex in the room, as Honeywell begins loudly howling like a dog, thus revealing why she is called Lassie.

When Clark fell ill with mononucleosis in 1979, he dictated the story of Porky's to Swaybill, who then wrote a draft of the script.

Clark eventually obtained financing from Melvin Simon Productions and a Canadian firm, Astral Bellevue Pathe.

[3] Kim Cattrall took a small role in the film because she needed the money, and was horrified, at first, to see her name at the top of the poster: "People thought it was the end of my career".

[8] Upon its release, Porky's was viewed as "a likeable lowbrow coming-of-age comedy", but the critical appraisal has been more negative since then.

The consensus reads, "Gleeful in its misogyny and celebratory of bad behavior, Porky's is an intermittently funny farce that will leave audiences feeling in need of a shower.

Peeping Tom scenes can be very funny (remember John Belushi on the ladder in Animal House?)

[3] On May 22, 2007, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released all three films in an "Ultimate Collection" box set on DVD.

Bob Clark did not want to make another film in the series, so director James Komack made the third and last part of the saga.

The potential remake ran into legal trouble in 2011 when two other production companies stepped forward claiming to own the rights.

[22] A cheap spinoff, Porky's Pimpin' Pee Wee, was made in order to retain the rights for a further seven years and released via video on demand in 2009.