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Aug 23, 1985 · Teen Wolf: Directed by Rod Daniel. With Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine. An ordinary high school student discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree.
- Rod Daniel
- 171
- 2 min
Teen Wolf is a 1985 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Rod Daniel and written by Jeph Loeb and Matthew Weisman. Michael J. Fox stars as the title character, a high school student whose ordinary life is changed when he discovers that he is a werewolf.
- August 23, 1985
- Thomas Coleman, Mark Levinson, George W. Perkins, Michael Rosenblatt, Scott M. Rosenfelt
- Teen Wolf was given the greenlight because of Valley Girl. Atlantic Entertainment Group wanted a small, high school movie of their own once they noticed that Valley Girl was an inexpensively produced movie that made a big profit.
- Teen Wolf wasn't the first high school teenage werewolf movie. Both 1957’s I Was a Teenage Werewolf and 1981’s Full Moon High beat Teen Wolf to the punch.
- Michael J. Fox became famous during production on Teen Wolf. It was over the course of the shooting of the movie that NBC moved Family Ties to a new Thursday night time slot, launching it from the 17th most watched show in America to the second.
- Rod Daniel was hired as the director of Teen Wolf because he understood that it was about more than a teenage werewolf. While other directorial candidates told Fox that the movie was about a werewolf, Rod Daniel said it was about a father and son.
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Synopsis When high school nerd Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) learns from his father, Harold (James Hampton), that being a werewolf runs in the family, he decides to take advantage of his...
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- Comedy, Fantasy
- PG
I turned into the werewolf out of anger. In front of his beady, little eyes. Scott Howard : Was he scared?