Growing Pains (1984)

Director
Robert Houston

Main cast
Pamela Adlon; Georg Olden; Michael Hentz; Joey Coleman; Christopher Brown

Genres
Comedy

Description
Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.


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