Moving Violations

Moving Violations (1985)

A crash course in traffic school.

A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.

Date of release
1985-04-19
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (76)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Neal Israel

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $10.6M
  • Filmed in: California and Los Angeles

Moving Violations is a 1985 American comedy film based around a traffic school. Directed by Neal Israel, the film stars John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, Brian Backer, Sally Kellerman, Nedra Volz, Clara Peller, Wendie Jo Sperber, Fred Willard, and the film debut of Don Cheadle.

Production

Writer and director Israel himself attended traffic school after having been pulled over by a police officer, for doing an illegal U turn:

"I made the mistake of arguing, and that was very foolish because the cop called in and found I had 13 tickets outstanding. Plus, I had one moving violation that I'd never settled. I went right to jail and did not collect $200. They put me in a cell with an arsonist. He had just blown somebody up. It was a very unsettling experience.

However he says "Traffic school is boring ... I interviewed a lot of people, including a man who owned a traffic school, but all his stories were boring. So, we made up everything."

Robert Conrad appeared in the film, unbilled, as a favor to Pat Proft, who was an old friend.

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