Terminal Exposure

10/30/2022

**_Fun misadventures from Venice Beach to Las Vegas and back_** Two best friends in SoCal (Mark Hennessy and Scott King) accidentally capture evidence of a murder on camera and seek a blonde with a tattoo on her derriere (Hope Marie Carlton). Ted Lange plays a literal beach bum and Joe Estevez a grim shady man. Shot in August-September, 1986, and released the next year, "Terminal Exposure” is a comedy/crime misadventure with focus on youths chasing beach beauties à la “Private Resort” (1985). I thought the two leads made for an entertaining duo despite being unknowns. Meanwhile Hope Marie is lovely (along with a few other females) and the misadventures are fun. But, like “Private Resort,” there’s a little too much sleaze in the air for my tastes. Yet this is mostly limited to the