please help me think of this movie!!!

[Amy]

ok...this has been an ongoing saga in my family for years....i have very little info on it, but maybe someone out there can help!

i have a scene from an 80's movie in my head, and i think it might be Howard the Duck...it's in a sort of auditorium, and there is a band playing...they resemble hall & oats or flock of seagulls...they aren't the main characters and are only the focal point for a second....they are performing a song in which the lead singer wails "she's a real live pretty girl" to which the others echo " a real live pretty girl"

you have no idea what this will mean to my family if someone can figure it out! 

thanks!

[Andrew]

I did a scan through my copy of "Howard the Duck" tonight and did not locate a scene that matches this description.  All of the musical numbers are of Beverly and the girls.  I thought that it might have been "Weird Science," but a scan of that movie did not turn up a match either.

Do you remember anything else about the movie?

[Ash]

The first movie that popped into my head was the 1987 film Like Father, Like Son.
That's the one where Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore switch bodies.

There is a scene in it where the characters run through a concert hall/auditorium with the rock band Autograph onstage singing "She Never Looked That Good For Me"
And yes, the band is only shown for 30 seconds to a minute.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Is this the movie you're thinking of?




Fun Fact: I actually got to meet Autograph way back in 1984 when I was 10 years old and got all of their autographs.  To this day, they're the only band I've ever met and I still have their autographs.

[Yaddo 42]

That may not be it. I Googled the lyrics for the Autograph song Ash mentioned. They don't include the line from the OP, unless they did a different version for the movie.

http://www.mothermetal.com/lyrics/sheneverlookedthatgoodforme.htm

Check it out for yourself

Googling the line "she's a real live pretty girl" was pretty much a dead end. One of the results appeared to be Amy submitting the question to another website. They got nowhere definite either.

[Ash]

I also Googled the lyrics she wrote down and found nothing.
Maybe she mixed them up in her head.  I've done that before myself.

I guess we'll have to wait for her to come back here and confirm it.

[Amy]

Sorry to keep all of you waiting!  

Um....no, it's not the kirk cameron movie....and i can't think of anything else from the movie to help us at all!!!!

[amy]

oh man, i'm so bummed it wasn't howard the duck....i really thought i had it!

i also thought it might be that old demi moore movie, where she's that folk rock singing chick with braids...anyone know that one well?

then somone said maybe a nerds movie......

i may have to buy a six pack of coke and a bag of cheese doodles and sit down and watch all of them til i find it...

god help me...

[LilCerberus]

It could be "Love Lines", which revolves around a battle of the bands.
I've got another title on the tip of my brain, but I can't think of it right now.

[Yaddo 42]

Demi Moore played a folk singer type in two 80s movies, No Small Affair and One Crazy Summer. Don't remember a scene like you describe in either one, but it's been a while. I've seen both numerous times, especially the second one, a pretty decent wacky summer comedy in a low expectation/80s nostaglia kind of way.

[JayOh]

The first thing that popped into my head was The Tubes - She's a Beauty.. "you can talk to a pretty girl..."

[Viktorcrayon]

Buckaroo banzai?

[Jessamyn]

I'm 87% certain that the song is "Pretty Girl" by Jeff Scott from the 80's dance movie, "Fast Forward."

If I'm not mistaken, it's from a scene near the end of the movie when the kids are about to take the stage in the talent show/competition thingy. There's a band on-stage playing "Pretty Girl", while the judges and audience are rockin' out. (Great 80's cheese!)

I haven't seen that movie in ages, so I might be mistaken about the scene, but I'm fairly certain about the movie. I hope this is what you're looking for! 

[Andrew]

I am moving this to solved, as it appears to have been abandoned by the original poster (she never answered the email I sent her letting her know a probable answer had been posted).

The IMDB listing for "Fast Forward" is here:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089129/