
You want the'80's Here they are in all their glory -

This flick was a sweet look at 80's genre, and a vehicle for young actors of the day. If you are longing for a simpler time when gangbangers had fades, and listened to "Beat it" on ghetto blasters this is for you. Our protagonist goes for the girl and gets a lot of grief from everyone for his efforts. Funny, Spader seldom got the good guy role, and he does it here with an edgy chip on his shoulder, never letting his hair-sprayed "do" get too messy in the process.
The origin of "slam dancing" is here, sans Pat Benetar. Better yet, our hero's sidekick teams up with Jim Carroll as Robert Downey Jr. is on the drum kit. It's almost surreal as they kinda seem like themselves in the Carroll cameo and not in a movie, a real creepy moment ensues where a older she-male type character bats his/her eyes at Downey as freaky groupie type. The whole film gets out of hand, where the young Spader really cops an attitude with his socially embarrassed mom, who doesn't bond with his wrong-side of tracts but amazingly mall-maned Kim Richards. Too many plots to make much sense out of as it turns into totally anarchy at the end, where Spader becomes McGiver. Somehow, it makes sense but not to be taken too seriously. Casting was superb, do not miss it, an 80's classic...SheeSheeLaroux
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