She's Out of Control

She's Out of Control is an independent American 1989 coming of age comedy film starring Tony Danza, Ami Dolenz and Catherine Hicks.

It was released on April 14, 1989 by Columbia Pictures and was distributed by the Weintraub Entertainment Group.

Plot
Widower Doug Simpson (Tony Danza) is a radio producer from California who lives with his two daughters, Katie (Ami Dolenz) and Bonnie (Laura Mooney).

When his oldest daughter Katie turns fifteen, she suggests to her father that's it's time for her to start looking more grown-up.

For the last 14 years, Katie had been wearing dowdy clothes, braces & thick glasses and hanging around with Richard, her next-door neighbor & long-time boyfriend (who had won Doug's approval).

But when Doug leaves on a business trip, Katie transforms herself [along with the help of Doug's fiancée Janet Pearson (Catherine Hicks)] into a knockout beauty. When Doug returns, he is shocked to find boys from every walk of life interested in dating Katie.

Janet suggests that Doug needs psychiatric help when his obsession with Katie and her boyfriends reaches extreme limits and Doug seeks out an expert who gives him advice that goes wrong whenever Doug applies it.

Throughout the latter half of the film, Katie maintains three boyfriends, two of whom she eventually stops dating.

At the end of the film, Katie takes a class trip to Europe and reunites with Richard again and her younger, tomboy sister Bonnie begins her own dating spree.

Doug also finds out that the "expert" (Wallace Shawn) never actually had any practical advice as he had never had a daughter himself.

Reception
Based on 19 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 11%.

Chicago film critic Roger Ebert gave the film the rare zero stars rating on his written review of the film, saying:

"What planet did the makers of this film come from? What assumptions do they have about the purpose and quality of life? I ask because She's Out of Control is simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality."

Leonard Maltin also panned the film, stating that it was a "superficial expanded sitcom with Danza offering a one-note performance," concluding with "this one seems as if it was spit out of a computer."