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Dangerous Curves 1988

What do fast cars and beautiful women share? A recent college graduate is given a once‑in‑a‑lifetime proposition: transport a Porsche for a client and, in return, secure a position at his dream company. When the vehicle is hijacked, he and his loyal friend must crash a glamorous beauty pageant staged by the thief in order to recover the prized car.

What do fast cars and beautiful women share? A recent college graduate is given a once‑in‑a‑lifetime proposition: transport a Porsche for a client and, in return, secure a position at his dream company. When the vehicle is hijacked, he and his loyal friend must crash a glamorous beauty pageant staged by the thief in order to recover the prized car.

Does Dangerous Curves have end credit scenes?

No!

Dangerous Curves does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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Chuck Upton, Tate Donovan, an uptight college student in Los Angeles, is hired by a successful businessman to deliver a Porsche to his daughter in Lake Tahoe, with the promise of a job if the delivery is successful. His fun-loving, girl-obsessed friend and roommate, Wally Wilder, Grant Heslov, convinces Chuck to drive him to San Diego first. The Porsche is stolen, and Chuck decides to try to get it back with Wally’s help but without involving the police so that the businessman does not find out. Meanwhile, Blake Courtland, Valerie Breiman, a fun-loving Texan, has convinced her naive friend Michelle West, Danielle von Zerneck, to participate in a beauty pageant. The car thief is a successful local businessman, Greg Krevske, Leslie Nielsen, who pledges the stolen Porsche as part of the grand prize in the contest; Chuck and Wally meet Blake and Michelle, who are initially skeptical of the boys’ story. Rival pageant contestant Shawn Brooks, Karen Lynn Scott, has a controlling stage mother who tricks Blake and Michelle into going to a party on Krevske’s boat to try to get them out of the way for the next round of the pageant so that they will be disqualified. Chuck and Wally sneak onto the boat in order to get evidence of the theft. Chuck finds a briefcase full of incriminating evidence, including the Porsche’s original license plate. The four flee on WetBikes, steal Krevske’s Ferrari, and agree to work together to steal back the Porsche. Chuck and Michelle spend the night together on a catamaran on the beach. The next day, with Michelle’s help, Chuck and Wally steal back the Porsche. They present Krevske’s Ferrari to the pageant as a replacement grand prize, and give the police the incriminating evidence from Krevske’s boat. Wally suggests leaving in order to make it to Lake Tahoe on time, but Chuck refuses to leave without talking to Michelle again. Shawn wins the beauty pageant, Blake invites Wally to stay in San Diego with her to have fun, and Chuck and Michelle get ready to drive to Lake Tahoe.

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Dangerous Curves Themes and Keywords

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Dangerous Curves Other Names and Titles

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