Breaking All the Rules (film)

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Breaking All the Rules
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Orr
Screenplay by	James Orr James Cruickshank
Story by	Rafal Zielinski Edith Rey
Produced by	Peter Kroonenburg David J. Patterson
Starring	Carl Marotte Thor Bishopric Carolyn Dunn Rachel Hayward
Cinematography	René Verzier
Edited by	Nick Rotundo
Music by	Paul Zaza
Production company	Filmline
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	April 1985 (1985-04)
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,032,000 (estimated)

Breaking All the Rules^[1] is a 1985 American-Canadian comedy film directed by James Orr.^[2]

The film deals with a part-time employee in an amusement park. He is unwittingly connected to a stolen diamond hidden in his workplace, and with the attempts of the thieves to retrieve it.

Plot

Jack spends his summer doing a part-time job in an amusement park. Meanwhile, an expensive diamond is stolen by three thieves. In order to escape from the police, the thieves hide the diamond inside a fluffy toy at the park. However, Jack's fingerprints were left at the crime scene unintentionally.

It is the last day of summer vacation, so Jack decides to hang out with his best friend David. On their way to the park, they meet two cute girls: Debbie and Angie. The four have a good time in the park, and Jack and David both fall in love with the girls, but they don't know that the three thieves have come back to the park and plan to take their diamond back.

Cast

Carl Marotte as Jack
Thor Bishopric as David
Carolyn Dunn as Debbie
Rachel Hayward as Angie
Michael Rudder as Harry
Papusha Demitro^[3] as Patty
Vlasta Vrana as Detective
Beverly Murray^[4] as Debbie's Mother (as Eve Napier)
Michele Scarabelli as David's Stepmother

Production

The film was written by Rafal Zielinski who called it "a personal project". He arranged finance from New World but sas "then there was a regime change at the studio, and behind my back they hired another writer and rewrote the script. They only told me this one week before shooting, and said that if I didn’t like it, then they’ll get this new screenwriter to direct it as well. I freaked out. It was a gorgeous, sensitive, coming-of-age movie, but they had turned it into some silly comedy. I was so destroyed by this. I felt I’d been, well, raped."^[5]

References

^ "Breaking all the rules". youtube.com. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
^ "Breaking All the Rules - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". www.allrovi.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ "Papusha Demitro". IMDb.
^ "Beverly Murray". IMDb.
^ "Into the Valet: Rafal Zielinski's Scruples with Screwballs (1983) & Co". The Schlock Pit. 29 February 2020.

External links

Breaking All the Rules at IMDb

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