Jason Naughton’s “Riffraff” is a summer comedy set at Chicago’s North Avenue Beach among a coed cast of Park District lifesavers. The performances by Ben Wells, Robert Belushi, Chryssie Whitehead and Katie O’Hagan are engaging in familiar material leavened by sweetly profane dialogue. DigiBeta video. 106m. (Ray Pride)
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Jason Naughton’s “Riffraff” is a summer comedy set at Chicago’s North Avenue Beach among a coed cast of Park District lifesavers. The performances by Ben Wells, Robert Belushi, Chryssie Whitehead and Katie O’Hagan are engaging in familiar material leavened by sweetly profane dialogue. DigiBeta video. 106m. (Ray Pride)
