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April Fool's Day is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Fred Walton released in USA on 27 march 1986 with Deborah Foreman
April Fool's Day (1986)
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Add to a movie listApril Fool's Day is a 1986 American mystery horror film directed by Fred Walton and starring Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, and Ken Olandt. The plot details a group of college students' weekend getaway at the island estate of their wealthy classmate, which is infiltrated by a killer. The original music score was composed by Charles Bernstein.
It was filmed in British Columbia, Canada and has a largely American cast.
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A group of college friends--Harvey, Nikki, Rob, Skip, Nan, Chaz, Kit and Arch--gather to celebrate Spring Break by spending the weekend at the island mansion of their friend Muffy St. John, on the weekend leading up to April Fools' Day. The tone is set almost immediately, with Muffy preparing details around the house, and finds an old jack-in-the-box she remembers (in flashback). Her friends, meanwhile, are joking around on the pier, then on the ferry to the island. But en route to the island, Buck, a local deckhand, is seriously injured in a gruesome accident.Actors
Deborah Foreman
(Muffy / Buffy St. John)
Thomas F. Wilson
(Arch Cummings)
Ken Olandt
(Rob Ferris)
Griffin O'Neal
(Skip St. John)
Leah Pinsent
(Nan Youngblood)
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