Grandview, U.S.A. is a 1984 comedy/drama film directed by Randal Kleiser. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, Ramon Bieri, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Winslow, and Troy Donahue. The original music score is composed by Thomas Newman. Filmed on Location in Pontiac, Illinois.
Tagline: Where dreams have a funny way of coming true.
Eighteen-year-old Tim Pearson (played b...
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Grandview, U.S.A. is a 1984 comedy/drama film directed by Randal Kleiser. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, Ramon Bieri, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Winslow, and Troy Donahue. The original music score is composed by Thomas Newman. Filmed on Location in Pontiac, Illinois.
Tagline: Where dreams have a funny way of coming true.
Eighteen-year-old Tim Pearson (played by C. Thomas Howell), a young soon-to-be graduate of Grandview High School, has his dreams, he wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. Tim's father, Roger Pearson (played by Ramon Bieri), loans Tim his brand new Cadillac for Tim to go to the Prom with his date Bonnie Clark (played by Elizabeth Gorcey), he arrives at her house. Bonnie's mother and father (played by M. Emmet Walsh), takes pictures of the couple, they go to the Prom.
Michelle "Mike" Cody (played by Jamie Lee Curtis), owner of "Cody's Speedway", where they have the demolition...
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