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Out of Bounds (1986 film)

Out of Bounds is a 1986 American action crime neo-noir thriller film directed by Richard Tuggle and starring Anthony Michael Hall.

Synopsis
Daryl Cage is an Iowa farm boy whose parents send him to Los Angeles to live with his brother following their divorce. At the airport, Daryl's suitcase is switched with a drug kingpin's that is full of heroin . The gangster boss kills Cage's brother and his live-in girlfriend, but Daryl is framed for the crime. He then becomes the prime suspect for the murder, but decides to clear his own name. ==Cast==
Production
Development The film was the idea of executive producer John Tarnoff, who wanted to make a "fish out of water" tale set in the Los Angeles club scene. He hired TV writer Tony Kayden to a script. Hall made the film after Weird Science, and Out of Bounds was his first non comedy. "I hope it puts an entirely different slant on my career," he said. The film featured a cameo from Siouxsie and the Banshees. Siouxsie said, "We all appear in this club scene they're busy shooting at the moment, but they flew us over especially to do it, which is nice...We read the script and really liked it and then thought, 'Yeah, why not do it?' It's basically a cops 'n robbers type thriller, and quite upbeat --the good guy gets the bad guy, and we're featured in a club scene playing one of our songs, 'Cities in Dust.' At least they're just letting us be ourselves, which makes quite a change from the usual offers." Tuggle and Hall clashed during filming. The director says the movie "was the story of an innocent farm boy who unknowingly stumbles into a drug deal. When Michael took the part, I thought he understood the sort of character he was meant to play because the script made it clear. When we started shooting, I was stunned to discover he intended to play it like a Clint Eastwood tough guy." "Young actors tend to be more emotional than veteran ones," said Tuggle. "The positive side of that is that they're really giving a lot. The negative is that they often get carried away with their emotions. But when Michael's really cooking, it can be exciting. I almost don't want to calm him down, because you lose a lot of the energy of the performance." ==Soundtrack==
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack featured songs by Stewart Copeland & Adam Ant, Robert Berry, Night Ranger, Belinda Carlisle, The Smiths, The Cult, The Lords of the New Church, Sammy Hagar, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Night Ranger song "Wild & Innocent Youth" has never appeared on any of the band's albums to date. According to the DVD accompanying the box set for ''100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong'', the Bon Jovi song "Out of Bounds" was written as the title song from the movie, but it did not make it. Y&T's "Wild If I Wanna" appears in a short sequence in the film, but did not make the soundtrack. It eventually appeared on the band's 2003 release Unearthed, Vol. 1 and made the group's setlists around that time due to popular demand. In the 1999 reissue of the Girls, Girls, Girls album, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx claimed that the instrumental track "Nona" was originally commissioned for this film. ==Reception==
Reception
The film received mixed-to-negative reviews upon release. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 out of 4, and said "Out of Bounds plays like an explosion at the cliche factory." Caryn James of The New York Times wrote that the "film wants to be a realistic thriller, but it merely acts out kids' fantasies of heroism and adventure, with drugs and rock music thrown in for a contemporary twist." ==Home Video==
Home Video
The film was released on VHS and laserdisc by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video in 1986, and remains unavailable on DVD or Blu-ray. ==See also==
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