![]() Another requirement is the frank portrayal of post-high school virginity, a role Stuart Getz excels in.Ī lot of the actors and actresses look familiar from 70s TV bit parts, but with one notable exception they seem to quickly disappear from show business altogether after The Van. Most of the money went into paying the actresses to do nude scenes–as required by the teensploitation genre. ![]() The acting is extremely minimalist in this low-budget comedy, and so is the script. This picture’s going straight to drive-in!” Let the van be the star of this show, baby. Just flash those Chiclets and make ’em forget you’re not Johnnie Whittaker. You could almost hear the Swifty Lazar pep talk his agent gave him on the first day of filming: “Kid, your smile is the best thing you got no one can take that away from you. Getz has next to no leading-man presence, for which he compensates by smiling way too much throughout his close-ups. He’s hoping that blowing his college savings on a custom van will change all that. In this one he’s Bobby, but he’s still the same red-haired loser who can’t get lucky with women. Well, “The Van” picks up after Stuart Getz’ character graduates high school. ![]() But you know how the real life episode ends: For the rest of high school, Charley begs Marcia for dates and she always rejects him, while eventually getting played for a semester by the very same jock who dumped her when she was temporarily ugly. With her lesson learned and WASPy nose suddenly back to normal, Marcia lets Charley take her to the dance instead of the jock after all.īrady Bunch episode #90 ends on a high note for Charley–he gets the sympathy date with Marcia and somehow even ends up breaking the jock’s nose in the show’s dramatic conclusion. ![]() Unlike the jock, Charley explains that he is into all of Marcia, not just her nose, and not at all ashamed to be seen with her in public. In the end, Charley gets the date with Marcia because, after she is nailed in the face by a football in the most graphically violent Brady Bunch footage of all time, the football captain gets one look at Marcia’s swollen nose and cancels their date on the spot, using the “something suddenly came up” excuse right back at Marcia. You know Stuart Getz from his Brady Bunch appearance as Charley, the affable red-haired loser Marcia breaks a date with (“something suddenly came up”) when the captain of the football team asks her out for the same night. Rating: R Genre: Teensploitation, custom vans/vansploitation Starring: Stuart Getz ![]()
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