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Post by kanding on Jan 8, 2009 14:58:14 GMT -4
Does anyone remember an Andrew McCarthy/Molly Ringwald movie where he's the wealthy college student and she's a working class townie and they fall in love? I think it was supposed to be both actors "serious" film.
I graduated high school in 1981, so I'm too old to appreciate most of the movies named here. But I do remember the big stink when Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture over Raging Bull. Both good movies but very different.
I also going to see Reckless with a good friend and she swooned over Aidan Quinn.
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Post by raqs on Jan 8, 2009 15:04:46 GMT -4
Isn't that Pretty in Pink?
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jan 8, 2009 15:05:11 GMT -4
Does anyone remember an Andrew McCarthy/Molly Ringwald movie where he's the wealthy college student and she's a working class townie and they fall in love? I think it was supposed to be both actors "serious" film. Yep, it was called Fresh Horses, and it was pretty widely panned. The discussion of abortion made me think of how it's portrayed in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I like how Jennifer Jason Leigh doesn't get ill or struck down by lightning as punishment. She just has one and that's it. There's no big moral crisis or "after school special" feeling to it, other than her realization that she needs to pick better boyfriends. I doubt a teen movie would be able to get away with that today. |
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Post by Spinderella on Jan 8, 2009 15:47:30 GMT -4
Absolutely, babyfishmouth! I thought the way it was handled (and man, it was over 20 years ago!) was perfect. Her brother lending his support and her making a mature decision on her own. It was a really brave moment.
Not only did it make her re-think her choice in boyfriends, but how she looked at sex in general. She may have not been ill or had the wrath of God, parents, community on her heals, but it was pretty clear that it wasn't a painless process, let alone a form of birth control. I always though her character was the realest out of them all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2009 16:32:37 GMT -4
Red Dawn anyone? Back in '84 we were largely convinced that this could be the way of things. Seems surreal now....
Anyway, that movie is a cornucopia of '80's stars -- Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2009 16:42:14 GMT -4
Does anybody remember the movie "Heaven Help Us" with Andrew McCarthy and Mary Stuart Masterson? Man, I remember watching that movie over and over. I fell hard for John Heard's character in the flick. It's the only Andrew McCarthy movie I could sit through. I have it on DVD. I believe it was the on-screen debuts for Kevin Dillon and Patrick Dempsey. I can't believe we've gone through 10 pages without mentioning the one Julia Roberts movie that everyone agrees was her best work: Mystic Pizza (I know, I know, I didn't mention Satisfaction, her other early film). |
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Post by WestEndGirl on Jan 8, 2009 17:51:55 GMT -4
Tom Selleck!!! Carrier76, do you remember how charming Selleck was in Her Alibi? I love that film! They filmed part of "Her Alibi" in the parking lot behind my mom's school (she was a teacher). All the teachers ran out to the back of the school property in order to get a glimpse of Tom Selleck. I think my mom even has a blurry photo of some people's heads and she swears one is him. She still talks about it to this day. How about Big? He had the best NYC apartment ever... |
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Post by carrier76 on Jan 8, 2009 17:54:50 GMT -4
I didn't see "Her Alibi." I did love him in "An Innocent Man" even though that movie kind of disturbed me.
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Post by Spinderella on Jan 8, 2009 18:09:35 GMT -4
Aww, Mystic Pizza was such fun.
Lili Taylor and Vincent D'Onofrio, too! Good times.
What about Vision Quest? It spawned the Madonna song, "Crazy for You".
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Post by Atreides on Jan 8, 2009 20:04:31 GMT -4
Any love for Three Men and a Baby from 1987? I've seen that movie so many times. I remember thinking how those three guys had the most amazing (and huge!) apartment ever. Great soundtrack too.
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