Written and directed by Charles Gale and produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman, Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (also released under the alternative title Demolition Day) tells a wild, satirical story about three teenagers who inadvertently hold the world hostage.
Slug (Ryan Thomas Johnson), Mickey (Joshua Schaefer), and Frank (Michael Bower) run away to a secret hideout to escape their angry parents. While hiding, they happen across a live atomic bomb.
Christening themselves “Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys,” they decide against turning the weapon in and use it instead as leverage to hoodwink the FBI and contact the President of the United States (Rod Steiger) with a single, highly unusual demand: cancel school forever.
What starts as a schoolboy prank quickly spins out of control when Joey and Brenda Franelli (Joe Mantegna and Joanna Pacula) – a pair of penniless, sad-sack hoodlums – steal the nuclear device for their own financial gain, turning a mischievous stunt into a very real, chaotic threat against the city of Los Angeles.
Martin Sheen is Jeff Snyder, the hapless FBI agent trying to manage the bizarre crisis. Joe Piscopo has a cameo role as annoying principal, Mr Wareman.
Joey Franelli
Joe Mantegna Jeff Snyder
Martin Sheen Brenda Franelli
Joanna Pacula The President
Rod Steiger The Slug
Ryan Thomas Johnson Mickey Boyle
Joshua Schaefer Frank Pescoe
Michael Bower Mr Wareman
Joe Piscopo Mrs Pescoe
Kate Mulgrew Leslie Moore
Wanda De Jesus Scumbag
Michael Talbott Willie
Ben Livingston Thug
Don Pugsley Norman
Kelly Morgan Benny
John Snee Patty Conrad
Rebecca Budig Agent Bob
Robert Alan Beuth Ed Birney
Peter Vogt Chief of Staff
Ralph Meyering Jr.
Director
Charles Gale
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Christening themselves “Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys,” they decide against turning the weapon in and use it instead as leverage to hoodwink the FBI and contact the President of the United States (Rod Steiger) with a single, highly unusual demand: cancel school forever.
Joey Franelli
The President
Mr Wareman
