Just One of the Guys (1985)?

I have a friend, for modesty’s sake let’s call him Mr. X, who believes that every R rated movie should have in it at least one good full on titty shot.? I have another friend, let’s call him Mr. Y, who believes there are not enough movies which contain at least one? woman who dresses like a man, (Mr. Y has threatened many times to ex-patriate to Europe to make his own movies).? This morning I texted X and Y and told them to come together to celebrate their fetishes and watch a movie they’ll both love; Just One of the Guys.?

? The movie, set in Arizona,? centers around high-schooler Terry Griffith, played by Joyce Hyser, who in her effort to win a journalism contest in order to obtain a summer internship at the Sun-Tribune, (which I can only assume is a co-op internship arranged by the Yuma Daily Sun and the East Valley Tribune),? is blocked by the man becuase, it is her belief, she is a she.? So? she becomes a he? in order to uncover? the glass celiing that? is holding her down and then write about it all? to win the contest.? She enrolls in? a neighboring high school and steps on the scene looking like a puffy Ralph Macchio.? Immediately she is mistaken for Daniel LaRusso by the villainous jock William Zabka and he takes what he thinks is revenge for losing first place at the All Valley Karate Tournament to Daniel the year before by hurling Terry into a thorny bush.? And that’s where she meets Rick Morehouse, a shy high school drifter with a mature attitude, an attitude which Terry can’t find in her college age boyfriend.? The two become best buds.? ?

Later Terry realizes she is falling for Rick and saves herself for him by? staving? off the advances of a young? and? slutty Sherilyn Fenn (Fenn is so? reved that she ends up sleeping with a cast member of Tremors that isn’t Kevin Bacon).? ? Meanwhile there is a contest to win, a boyfriend to avoid, a sock to stuff down her pants, a brother? with itchy balls, and an ending to be had.? ? The prom, everything always? comes to a head at the prom.? ? ?

? Mr. X will want to pay attention now, because in order to prove her love and gender to Rick? at the same time, Terry flashes him, (and us).? Rick is impressed but stunned and runs away.? At some point everybody fights Zabka and Terry’s true gender is revealed to all.? Luckily Terry was a boy just long enough to get her story and a proper one to as she wins the contest and gets her summer internship and presumably a job a the East Valley Tribune where she would go on to transform the paper into a trans-gender friendly publication as can be seen by a recent article.? Luckily with the image of Terry’s bosom burned in his mind Rick comes back to Terry and they whisk away to enjoy the rest of their Arizonian lives together.? So is Just One of the Guys? worth a watch even if you aren’t X and Y?? ? Well, if you have already seen She’s the Man, then yes, and if you haven’t then I don’t know what the hell your doing.? And if you want even more transgender high school hijinks and you love Corey Haim check out Just One of the Girls.? So to slap a grade on this one I give it one titty shot and two itchy balls.?

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