Bad Manners

Bad Manners (1984)

Good fun … bad taste

Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.

Date of release
1984-11-11
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Robert Houston

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Bad Manners is a 1984 American black comedy teen film released by New World Pictures. Written and directed by Robert Houston and produced by Kim Jorgensen, the film follows a group of juvenile delinquents who escape the oppressive Catholic orphanage where they live in order to rescue one of their fellow "inmates". While the film's adult stars Martin Mull, Karen Black, Anne De Salvo, and Murphy Dunne received top billing in promotional materials, the story is told through the perspective of the adolescent protagonists; played by Georg Olden, Pamela Segall, Michael Hentz, Joey Coleman, and Christopher Brown.

Production

Although listed by several online sources under the title Growing Pains, in his October 1984 review of the film, Boston Phoenix film critic Owen Gleiberman consistently referred to the film by the title Bad Manners. The film was both written and directed by, then 29-year-old, Robert Houston (credited as "Bobby Houston"), whose only previous writing/directing credit was the Samurai themed action-adventure feature film, Shogun Assassin.

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