Screwballs


Screwballs is a 1983 Canadian teen sex comedy film. It was inspired by the success of Porky's.

Premise

Sometime during 1965, five male friends at Taft and Adams High School try to see the bare breasts of Purity Bush, the most beautiful girl in school. After being set up, reprimanded and sent to detention by the principal because of Purity, they plot to get even.

Production

designed the poster and said he was inspired by MAD magazine. Linda Shayne posed for the blonde figure on the poster.

Reception

Critical

Variety magazine called the film "a poor man’s Porky’s... full of youthful exuberance and proves utterly painless to watch, but it is so close in premise and tone to its model that negative comparisons can’t help but be drawn." On Metacritic the film has a 34 out of 100 based on 7 reviews.

Box office

The film was released in U.S. theaters by New World Pictures in April 1983. It grossed $2,082,215.

Sequel

The film led to a semi-sequel, Screwballs II.