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She's Out of Control is an independent American 1989 coming of age comedy film starring Tony Danza, Ami Dolenz and Catherine Hicks. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The film was marketed with the tagline ". . . girls go wild, guys go crazy and Dads go nuts." The film was shot with the working title Daddy's Little Girl.

Plot

Widower Doug Simpson (Danza) is a radio manager from California who lives with his two daughters, Katie (Dolenz) and Bonnie (Laura Mooney). When Katie turns 15, she feels it's time to start looking more grown-up. She's been dating Richard, the boy next door, whom her father adores, since middle school. In addition, her unflattering wardrobe has been complemented by her thick glasses and full set of braces. When Doug leaves on a business trip, Katie transforms herself into a knockout beauty with help from her father's girlfriend Janet Pearson (Hicks).

When Doug returns, he is shocked to find boys from every walk of life interested in dating Katie. When his obsession with Katie and her boyfriends reaches extreme limits, Janet suggests that Doug needs psychiatric help and he seeks out an expert who gives him advice that goes wrong whenever it is applied. Throughout the latter half of the film, Katie has three boyfriends, two of whom she eventually stops dating. At the end of the film, Katie takes a class trip to Europe and reunites with Richard again – at which point Bonnie, her younger tomboy sister, begins her own dating spree. Doug also finds out the "expert" was anything but, as he never had a daughter himself.

Cast

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Tony Danza as Doug Simpson

Ami Dolenz as Katie Simpson

Laura Mooney as Bonnie Simpson

Catherine Hicks as Janet Pearson

Wallace Shawn as Dr. Fishbinder

Derek McGrath as Jeff Robbins

Lance Wilson-White as Richard

Dana Ashbrook as Joey

Matthew Perry as Timothy (credited as Matthew L. Perry)

Dick O'Neill as Chuck Pearson

Dustin Diamond as Beach Boy

Oliver Muirhead as Nigel

Reception

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Based on 19 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 11%.

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Chicago film critic Roger Ebert gave the film the rare zero stars rating on his written review of the film, saying:

What planet did the makers of this film come from? What assumptions do they have about the purpose and quality of life? I ask because She's Out of Control is simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality.

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Leonard Maltin also panned the film, stating that it was a "superficial expanded sitcom with Danza offering a one-note performance," concluding with "this one seems as if it was spit out of a computer."