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Corvette Summer
Glitterbug movie which demands that the audience go ga-ga over customized sports cars and vans, garish paint jobs, hydraulic lifts, waterbeds, wigs, the night lights of Las Vegas, and others of life's little extras. It uses two unassuming actors -- Mark Hamill as a gullible grease monkey and Annie Potts as an inept prostitute with a voice better suited to a telephone operator -- to play Pied Piper to the youth audience, and lure them onto a spree of consumerist gluttony. Matthew Robbins wrote and directed with a pretty sure sense of what he's doing, and with a seemingly clear conscience. Funniest scene involves a caravan of lowriders traveling to Vegas at 17 mph. 1978.
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MPAA Rating: PG
