EDITOR’S NOTE: Dangerous Curves was on USA Up All Night on May 17 and 18, 1991; January 24 and August 22, 1992 and March 26 and April 17, 1993.
Chuck (Tate Donovan) is the quintessential uptight college student who lands a golden opportunity: deliver a pristine Porsche to a businessman, Louis Faciano’s (Robert Stack) daughter in Lake Tahoe. If he completes the assignment, a great job is his for the taking. Of course, he makes the classic mistake of letting his hormone-driven roommate, Wally (Grant Heslov), talk him into a detour to San Diego.
Naturally, the car gets stolen. Instead of coming clean, the duo decides to play detective to avoid losing the gig. They cross paths with two pageant-bound friends, Blake (Valerie Breiman) and Michelle (Danielle von Zerneck, who is married to the accordion player in The Pogues, James Fearnley).
The car thief happens to be another big business guy, Greg Krevske (Leslie Nielsen, not yet the king of parody), who is using the stolen Porsche as the grand prize for the beauty pageant. After a WetBike chase and a high-stakes infiltration of Krevske’s yacht, the boys and the girls join forces to outsmart the villain, recover the car, fall in love and expose his shady business dealings just in time for the pageant finale.
This is a movie filled with people you will be comfortable seeing again, like Robert Romanus (always Mike Damone) as a cab driver, Robert Klein, Elizabeth Ashley (from Windows!) as a pageant mom, MTV VJ Martha Quinn and Tool Time Girl Debbe Dunning.
It was directed by David Lewis, who was the cinematographer on UHF, Night of the Demons and the Olsen Twins’ Our Lips Are Sealed. It was written by Michael Dugan (who created the MTV series Remote Control), Michael Zand (the suicidal terrorist in the beginning of To Live and Die In L.A.) and Paul Brown, who wrote Thrashin’.
You can watch this on Tubi.
