When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Acting
Michael J. Fox's desperate charm carries even the wolfiest scenes
Score
Beach Boys covers and generic rock that somehow SLAPS
Practical Effects
The transformation makeup remains impressively gross and tactile
Director
Rod Daniel
Michael J. Fox
Scott Howard
James Hampton
Harold Howard
Susan Ursitti
Lisa 'Boof' Marconi
Jerry Levine
Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski
Matt Adler
Lewis
Lorie Griffin
Pamela Wells
Jim McKrell
Vice Principal Rusty Thorne
Mark Arnold
Mick McAllister
Mark Holton
Chubby
Scott Paulin
Kirk Lolley
Elizabeth Gorcey
Tina
Doug Savant
Brad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fox filmed this simultaneously with Family Ties, doing Teen Wolf at night—explains the perpetual exhaustion energy.
The 'werewolf as puberty metaphor' later dominated Twilight and Teen Wolf (2011), but this was the horny blueprint.
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