CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : HOMEWORK .. JENSEN FARLEY . USA 1979 / 1982 ..

 JENSEN FARLEY PRODUCTIONS

Present
A MAX J ROSENBERG PRESENTATION

HOMEWORK

Starring

JOAN COLLINS as Diana
CARRIE SNODGRESS as DR Delingua
BETTY THOMAS as Red Dogs Secretary

LEE PURCELL as Ms Jackson

MICHAEL MORGAN as Tommy

WINGS HAUSER as Red Dog

ERIN DONOVAN as Sheila

SHELL KEPLER as Lisa

LANNY HORN as Ralph

MEL WELLES as Doctor

BEVERLY TODD as Clinic Receptionist

HOWARD STORM as Swim Coach

NEWELL ALEXANDER as Mr Stern

Director of Photography - Paul Goldsmith

Music by Anthony R Jones / Jim Wetzel

Screenplay by Maurice Peterson / Don Safran

Edited by Allen Persselin

Executive Producer - Max J Rosenberg

Produced / Directed by James Beshears

(c) 1979 . Released 1982 .. JENSEN FARLEY .. 90 MINS

Every young man needs a teacher! For Tommy and his friend Ralph their lessons don't just stay in the classroom! They both form a rock band in the hope of becoming famous. When they come to the end of their senior year, they both look for lessons in love.. from older women! Tommy in the shape of his girlfriend's mother Diana.. while Ralph turns to his French tutor! When it's time for boys to become men.. it can be hard keeping up with their Homework!!

Revised edition

Original outlawed

This forgettable film would certainly not be on Joan's list of favourite films as she had many problems with it .. The film began life as a coming of age drama 'Growing Pains', with Joan in a small role of the mother of the lead characters girlfriend. Joan only had a few days shooting on the film, when she had problems with the producers over nude scenes which she had not agreed to. The film however never got a release at the time of completion in 1979, as the distributors went under and the film lay in a vault somewhere or other. Jensen Farley aqquired the film in the early 80's and seeing the trend for the younger man /
older women film popular at the box office,
they decided to market it as that. They however also decided to insert nude scenes into the original film passing them off as Joan.. To make matters worse, they gave Joan top billing, also trying to cash in on her new 'Dynasty' fame, but made the mistake of releasing a poster with a nude models body with Joan's face superimposed on to it!

Final Approved version

Joan was not too pleased at this and sued the production company, who issued another poster featuring a bikini model, with Joan's head, this was still not acceptable, finally a suitably 'Dynasty' clad gowned model was attached to Joan's head! In the end the poster had an artist drawn image of Joan as shown above. Joan however was not the only star to sue, co-star Carrie Snodgress also had her named removed from the film, she was only in the film very briefly.

The film was released on video in the 80's by Universal on their CIC label, it was released on DVD in the USA on VCI but this release is no longer available, but you can view cover below!