One More Saturday Night

Life on a Saturday night in St. Cloud gets wackier with hijinks and shenanigans as the evening progresses.

Written and starring Al Franken and Tom Davis (known for 'Trading Places' and 'SNL'), director Dennis Klein does his best with a script that required just a little more polish. Surprisingly, Dan Ackroyd also acts as executive producer on this coming-of-age drama comedy, which is a broken-up tale. The main relationship of Diane and her jock boyfriend plot isn't focal enough, the hilarious father date, the babysitting house party, ear-piercing thief subplot, and Diane's brother using 'The Great Escape' to help him track down a robber. Even if some outcomes are unexpected, Franken and Davis' subplots are not rounded and don't intertwine enough to make for a clever romp, but they are nonetheless entertaining.

Stunning actress Nan Woods, channeling Molly Ringwald, does her best with what she's given, knocking it out of the park when it comes to talking about her mother. Chelcie Ross as Dad Ludhal is notable as Diane's father on his first date.

Backdropped with a great soundtrack, One More Saturday Night's setups are there, with a few laugh-out-loud one-liners littered throughout. But the execution and pacing is bumpy, with the feeling that it has a lot to say, but says nothing at all. That said, the small town vibe, the uncensored, innocent lack of political correctness of the 80s that means no harm is refreshing. Reminiscent of 'Secret of My Success,' 'Career Opportunities,' 'Bachelor Party,' and 'Adventures in Babysitting,' to name a few (only on a lower budget), making Klein's offering an interesting time capsule of sorts.

Overall, while Klein's obscure, forgotten comedy is hit and miss, it oozes nostalgia and 80s vibes, and worth watching for that alone.

I saw this movie when i was 12 and i loved it.I personally think this movie was one of most neglected 80's movies that ever hit the movie theater in 1986. I personally i find this movie very hilarious and fun.

SNL's Tom Davis recently passed away. He was known for his collaborations with Al Franken. While their SNL stuff was their most famous work (as well as an appearance in "Trading Places" as the luggage handlers), another collaboration was this 1986 comedy about a band performing in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The band's arrival is more of a conduit for a series of crazy events throughout the town, as the teenagers get into all sorts of mischief. In that sense, the movie does seem a little disjointed, but the crazy stuff that the different characters do makes up for that. "One More Saturday Night" isn't really anything special, but still OK. I bet that no one predicted that one of the cast members would one day get elected to the US Senate.

This movie has gone virtually unseen and what a crime that is. The movie is hilarious and stands to repeated viewings. You will catch all kinds of stuff the more you watch it. Like when the pesky little brother is watching "The Great Escape" on TV then enters his own hot pursuit on his ATV only to have it end as he gets close lined (literally) as does Mcqueen. A funny little know fact. The movie premiered in Marin County in 1986 and I was attending Sonoma State at the time. I knew someone that was attending the premiere of a movie that had something to do with Jerry Garcia called "One More Saturday Night". Well in the movie Franken and Davis are in a band and if you listen carefully, one of Tom Davis's guitar solos has a noticeable "punch in" with recognizable Jerry Garcia licks finishing it out. They Deadhead who saw the premiere was needless to say perplexed. We all know of the great work of Al Franken and here is hoping that Tom Davis gets "Hitting the Wall" or anything else made someday soon. Lets pray for a DVD although that seems unlikely unless it gets a cult following in China in 20yrs.

Having first heard of this movie when writer/star Al Franken plugged it on "Weekend Update" on "Saturday Night Live" during the season finale in 1986, I had long been curious about it and just now watched it on the Crackle site. He and partner Tom Davis play the leading members of rock band Badmouth who stop at St. Cloud, Minnesota, for a gig while various teenagers in town have their own adventures during one Saturday night. I'll stop there and just say that as the authors, Franken & Davis give nuanced style to the situations and characterizations that gradually takes one to heights of hilarity as the narrative goes on before once again going back to the subtler route. So don't expect the wacky hijinks of a Caddyshack or Wayne's World here. Which means the R-rating is mostly for a few scenes of the f-word being said. So on that note, I highly recommend One More Saturday Night. P.S. While Meshach Taylor is the only other cast member I recognized in name and face having watched "Designing Women" a lot, I had watched "China Beach" during the early seasons but was unaware that the woman who played Cherry there-Nan Woods-was Diane here. Besides her, other natives of my birthtown of Chicago that appeared here include Frank Howard, Nina Siemaszko, Mike Hagerty, and Nathan Davis who also died there (as did Second City veteran Del Close who played Mr. Schneider/Large Tattooed Man here). Oh, and much of the movie was shot around my birthtown.