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The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.
Willard E. Pugh
- Jeff Roth
- (as Willard Pugh)
Joe Alfasa
- Jim
- (as Josef Alfasa)
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- TriviaNedra Volz was 76 years old at the time of filming. She shot many of her tricky scenes, including sliding and falling to the floor from sitting on a man's lap, and being lifted through the window onto the floor of the bathroom, without the use of a stunt double.
- GoofsWhen the driving-school students have rigged Halik's police cruiser so that it will only go into reverse--and Halik is forced to engage in a high- speed pursuit driving backwards--it's obvious that the "rear" tires of the car are doing the steering. (That's because the Malibu's body is turned backward. Also, the small-but-noticeable gas cap is visible in the center of the front bumper.)
- Quotes
Terrence 'Doc' Williams: [voice-over] Drain out all the water, take in plenty of oil, grease up that back end, get out on the highway and go at full speed for about ten miles. See how it feels.
Joan Pudillo: No-one's ever mentioned this to me before.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988)
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Not sure why John Murray didn't do more films - he definitely should have, and hopefully he will do some in the future. True, his acting style is similar to his older brother Bill's, but he's individual enough that he coulda made it big. "Moving Violations" is good. Not great, but it was pretty well directed and it's got its strengths. Actually, it made it into theaters only six months after it was written and filmed - if anything, I'd say that they should have gone back and rewritten and polished up a few things. The plot does get stretched a bit thin over the course of the movie...the best parts come in the beginning and middle. The ending is pretty limp and the whole Judge Henderson/Deputy Halik sexcapade and ensuing car chase sequence just gets boring with all the boffo antics. The character of Scott the Puppeteer, played by Brian Backer (Rat of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High") doesn't develop as well as it should have, and the chick who plays his love interest wasn't written well at all - BUT, Backer's star scene near the beginning with the puppet stage rolling down the hill is a total gut-buster. Despite these few problems, there are enough good gags and Murray definitely keeps the movie afloat. Jennifer Tilly is superb as Amy Hopkins the nimrod rocket scientist. James Keach, Wendie Jo Sperber (who had just done "Back to the Future"), Ned Eisenberg, and Nedra Volz all contribute a lot of positive energy, making "Moving Violations" one of those 'so bad, it's good' movies.
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- Also known as
- Traffic School - Die Blech- und Dachschaden-Kompanie
- Filming locations
- 2776 Gum Cir, Simi Valley, California, USA(Roth residence- where Wink and Jeff drop off Jeff's father)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,627,754
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,469,488
- Apr 21, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $10,627,754
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