What 70s/early 80s film featured "ooh child" by 5 stairsteps was about!
Question: What 70s/early 80s film featured "ooh child" by 5 stairsteps was about troubled youth in a mid-west town!?
Answers:
Over the Edge (1979)
starring Matt Dillon (acting debut), Vincent (Vince) Spano (acting debut), Michael Kramer (aka Michael Eric Kramer), Ellen Geer, Tiger Thompson
IMDb synopsis:
New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center - which closes at 6 PM!. The parents, in their zeal to attract industry to their town, have all but neglected their children!. As a result, the kids begin to create their own entertainment, which involves vandalism, theft, and general hooliganism!. During an incident when one of the kids brandishes an unloaded gun at town cop Ed Doberman, he is shot and killed!. When the parents gather the next night to discuss the killing and the level of lawlessness among the youth, they soon find out that their kids have had all they can take!.
TRIVIA:
Charles S!. Haas based his story on true events which occurred in the planned community of Foster City, California in the early 1970s!. In fact, a California headline about the incident, "Mouse Packs: Kids On A Crime Spree", was authored by Haas when he was a reporter with the San Francisco Examiner!.
Originally completed in 1979, the movie was not released until two years later when it was run on HBO!. At the time, the studio thought the movie was too controversial and feared that it would spark violence, which apparently occurred with the film "The Warriors" (1979)!.
If I recall correctly, this is played as the bus takes most of the children away:
"Ooh Child"
by Valerie Carter
Courtesy of Columbia Records and ARC Records
The song starts about 5:30 in this clip from YouTube:
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=x_OUZ_MS5!.!.!.
YouTube has the complete movie!Www@Enter-QA@Com
starring Matt Dillon (acting debut), Vincent (Vince) Spano (acting debut), Michael Kramer (aka Michael Eric Kramer), Ellen Geer, Tiger Thompson
IMDb synopsis:
New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center - which closes at 6 PM!. The parents, in their zeal to attract industry to their town, have all but neglected their children!. As a result, the kids begin to create their own entertainment, which involves vandalism, theft, and general hooliganism!. During an incident when one of the kids brandishes an unloaded gun at town cop Ed Doberman, he is shot and killed!. When the parents gather the next night to discuss the killing and the level of lawlessness among the youth, they soon find out that their kids have had all they can take!.
TRIVIA:
Charles S!. Haas based his story on true events which occurred in the planned community of Foster City, California in the early 1970s!. In fact, a California headline about the incident, "Mouse Packs: Kids On A Crime Spree", was authored by Haas when he was a reporter with the San Francisco Examiner!.
Originally completed in 1979, the movie was not released until two years later when it was run on HBO!. At the time, the studio thought the movie was too controversial and feared that it would spark violence, which apparently occurred with the film "The Warriors" (1979)!.
If I recall correctly, this is played as the bus takes most of the children away:
"Ooh Child"
by Valerie Carter
Courtesy of Columbia Records and ARC Records
The song starts about 5:30 in this clip from YouTube:
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=x_OUZ_MS5!.!.!.
YouTube has the complete movie!Www@Enter-QA@Com