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Young Lust
Young Lust
Directed by	Gary Weis
Written by	Bruce Wagner; Robin Menken
Produced by	Robert Stigwood; George Van Noy
Starring	Fran Drescher; Mews Small
Cinematography	Charles Rosher Jr.
Edited by	James Coblentz
Music by	Patrick Williams
Production; companies	Robert Stigwood Organisation; Paramount
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date	27th April 1984;
Country	United States
Language	English

Young Lust is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Gary Weis and starring Fran Drescher, Mews Small and Dana Carvey. It was co-financed by Paramount, who picked up the production from Robert Stigwood's RSO Films.

It was an early script by Bruce Wagner, co-written with Robin Menken. The film is a spoof of soap opera tropes with a large ensemble cast. ^[1]

It was test screened in Las Vegas on 19th February 1982 ^[2] and subsequently given a brief theatrical release in Austin, Texas from 27th April to 11th May 1984.^[3]^[4] Other than these screenings, the film has not been exhibited since, nor released on home video, cable television or streaming.

Plot

Cast

Fran Drescher as Sondra Banning
Mews Small as Connie Main
Dana Carvey as Dwayne Bimster
Lyman Ward as Dick Danner
Jeff Pomerantz as Pete Borsalino
Allan Arbus as Dr Smetch
James Booth as Conrad Main
Dey Young as Debby Bimster
Woody Brown as Mickey Main
Terry Kiser as Howard Levinthal
Alley Mills as Sheila Danner
George Wendt as Avery Lumpig
Mary Woronov as Nicole Dunning
Larry Hankin as Binney
John Roarke as Coach Blot
Seymour Cassel as Dr Klapper
Dorothy Constantine as Elaine Bimster
Edith Fields as Mrs Bodkey
Lucy Lee Flippin as Peggy Smetch
Roger Wilson as Jerry
Howard Mann as Vince Borsalino
Sally Marr as Hanna Levinthal
Justin Dana as Herbert Danner
Dean R. Miller as Brian
Michael W. Schwartz as Donald

Production

The film was part of a slate of projects that Paramount rushed into production. In April 1982 the film was tentatively meant to come out in May.^[5] In June 1982 Paramount said they had no plans to release it.^[6]

A May 1983 article said the film "was such a mess that it has yet to be officially delivered to Paramount."^[7]

Bruce Wagner later said "I think the director was having some problems at the time with the studio and it was never released. It was a protracted death because a year was spent editing it." Wagner says after a year he was approached to work on the movie for reshoots. "That was also the year where a lot of movies like Young Doctors in Love and raucous comedies like National Lampoon’s Vacation [were released] and this movie... was very transgressive. The fact that it was not made informed a lot of my future work in writing about failure and shame. I certainly would have written about those things anyway, but in terms of my Hollywood experience, my entrée was one of defeat rather than of triumph."^[8]

Legacy

Wagner said "That experience formed a template of failure and humiliation that has been a mother lode for me. Those were aspects of career not personal anguish that I drew from."^[9]

Director Gary Weis never directed another feature, going on to helm music videos such as Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al, as well as the Chris Elliot comedy short Action Family. Weis subsequently went on to a successful career in television commericals.

References

^ Weinraub, Bernard (12 August 1996). "Novelist Knows Hollywood's Bleak Houses". New York Times.
^ Las Vegas Review Journal 19 Feb 1982: 6F
^ Austin American Statesman 27 Apr 1984
^ Austin American Statesman 11th May 1984
^ Film Notes BY GARY ARNOLD The Washington Post 30 Apr 1982: W15.
^ 'Toy' cast clears air about city's pollution Beck, Marilyn. Chicago Tribune 26 June 1982: 11.
^ Harmetz, Aljean (23 May 1983). "How Paramount 'Seven' Fared at the Box Office". New York Times. p. C13.
^ Saito, Stephen (February 27, 2015). "Interview: Bruce Wagner Charts "Maps to the Stars"". The Moveable Feast.
^ Feld, Rob (March 20, 2015). "The Faults of Our Stars". Writers Guild of America West.