Out of Bounds is a 1986 American

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 action-thriller feature film

Feature film

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 directed by Richard Tuggle

Richard Tuggle

Richard Tuggle is an American film director and writer best known for such films as Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope and Out of Bounds.-External links:...

 and starring Anthony Michael Hall

Anthony Michael Hall

Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980...

. It is currently not available on DVD.

Plot

Hall portrays Daryl Cage, an Iowa

Iowa

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 farm boy whose parents send him to live in Los Angeles

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 with his brother. At the airport, Daryl's suitcase full of checkered flannel

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 shirts is switched with one containing a drug kingpin

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's heroin. The gangster boss has Cage's brother and his live-in girlfriend murdered, but the police suspect Daryl of the crime. Cage becomes the prime suspect of his brother's murder and must clear his own name. He must also rid himself of the heroin by tracking down the kingpin.

Production

Hall had recently achieved fame in starring roles as a "geek" character in a number of 1980s "teen" movies, such as Sixteen Candles, and was eager to avoid being typecast

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. He opted to star in the action-filled Out of Bounds as a way to contrast his previous work.

The film soundtrack

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 featured songs by Stewart Copeland

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 & Adam Ant

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, Robert Berry

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, Night Ranger

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, Belinda Carlisle

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, The Smiths

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, The Cult

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, The Lords of the New Church

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, Sammy Hagar

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, 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

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 bassist Nikki Sixx claimed that the instrumental track "Nona" was originally commissioned for this movie.

Cast

• Anthony Michael Hall
  Anthony Michael Hall
  Michael Anthony Hall , known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, film producer and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980...
  
   as Daryl Cage
• Jenny Wright as Dizz / Darlene
• Jeff Kober
  Jeff Kober
  Jeff Kober is an American actor, known for his performances on television and film.-Major work:Jeff Kober, a native of Billings, Montana, was born on December 18, 1953. Not satisfied with being a rancher, Kober relocated to the L.A. area in his twenties with the desire to become an actor...
  
   as Roy Gaddis
• Glynn Turman
  Glynn Turman
  Glynn Russell Turman is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford...
  
   as Lieutenant Delgado
• Raymond J. Barry
  Raymond J. Barry
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   as Hurley
• Pepe Serna
  Pepe Serna
  Pepe Serna is an American film actor and artist.Serna's first break in movies came in 1970 on the Roger Corman directed film Student Nurses. Over the years Serna has appeared in over 100 films, most notably Car Wash and Scarface directed by Brian De Palma, where he played Montana's friend Angel...
  
   as Murano
• Michele Little
  Michele Little
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   as Crystal
• Jerry Levine
  Jerry Levine
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   as Marshall
• Ji-Tu Cumbuka
  Ji-Tu Cumbuka
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   as Lemar
• Kevin McCorkle as Tommy Cage
• Linda Shayne as Chris Cage
• Maggie Gwinn as Mrs. Cage
• Ted Gehring as Mr. Cage
• Meat Loaf
  Meat Loaf
  Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor...
  
   as Gil (as Meatloaf)
• Allan Graf as Biker
• Dan Lewk as Cop on Melrose
• John Vickery
  John Vickery
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   as Detective #1
• Tony Acierto as Detective #2
• David Chung as Detective #3
• Tony Kayden as Snide Patron #1
• John Tarnoff
  John Tarnoff
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   as Snide Patron #2
• Jennifer Balgobin as Martha

External links

• The Eighties Club Movie Review N-O (note: this link has pop-ups)