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Very True to Life
Great movie all around. Lucas is a little guy with heart. Maggie (Green) was very pretty and kind. I relly liked how Cappie (Sheen) stukck up for Lucas and was nice to him. I feel I can identify with Lucas because I too was a bit of a nerd in high school. I had my share of troubles with jocks and was disapointed when girls I had a crush on only liked me as a friend or liked someone else. But Lucas mananaged to gain the one thing by the end of the film that we all yearn for: RESPECT.
Nerdy unrequited love and social acceptance
Everyone relates to Lucas on some level. He was an awkward kid with quirky interests and an ernest manner about him. I realize now looking at him in contrast to the other popular kids exactly what makes a person "well liked" in certain situations. Honesty and sincerity seem to not make someone popular, and if you have other interests besides being the star of the team then you're odd, and your worth is measured by something else entirely.
Corey Haim, in perhaps his most famous and successful role, plays the dorky kid Lucas. He befriends a pretty new girl in town and they become very close over the summer. Once school starts, she begins to branch out and meet new people, including the star quarterback Charlie Sheen. Lucas becomes naturally jealous that the gal he had developed a crush on is becoming smitten with someone else and not acknowledging his more gentile charms, and even attempts to join the football team in hopes of getting her approval. Beaten up by the steroid ridden jocks and crushed on the field, he never gives up on his dream of someday winning her over.
It's a noble thought, but now this leaves a lot of things up to questioning people's character. When Charlie Sheen's girlfriend dumps him, he comes to Lucas's fair lady for comfort. When Lucas shows up to take her to the school dance, she announces that she will not be going with him but taking Charlie Sheen out for pizza. If she truly had integrity she would've forgone her love for Charlie Sheen for that one night and stuck to her obligation. Charlie Sheen was supposed to be the reformed jock who saw what a great person Lucas really was, and he does defend him when others try to bully, but if he was really a friend he would've stepped aside and said to the dream girl that while he cares for her he doesn't want to hurt Lucas's feelings so they should put it aside. As for Lucas, he told the dream girl that he lived on a house on the hill when he actually lives in a trailer park. He wanted her to like him for who he was not the fact that he was a kid from a trailer park, but the bottem line was that he lied as well. Maybe none of them had all that much integrity to begin with, but it is, after all, high school.
A modern story of Romeo and Juliet
Director: David Seltzer
Format: Color
Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
Video Release Date: March 11, 2003
Cast:
Corey Haim ... Lucas
Kerri Green ... Maggie
Charlie Sheen ... Cappie
Courtney Thorne-Smith ... Alise
Winona Ryder ... Rina
Tom Hodges ... Bruno
Ciro Poppiti ... Ben
Guy Boyd ... Coach
Jeremy Piven ... Spike
Kevin Wixted ... Tonto
Emily Seltzer ... Marie
Erika Leigh ... Mary Ellen
Anne Ryan ... Angie
Jason Alderman ... Tony
Tom Mackie ... Billy
Garrett M. Brown ... Mr. Kaiser
Donald Harrigan ... Man at Symphony
Judy Leavitt-Wells ... Cheer Coach
Christina Baglivi ... Spanish Teacher
Shirley Madlock ... Teacher
Rosanne E. Krevitt ... Teacher
Gregg Potter ... Tough Kid
Polly Augusta Noonan ... Punk Girl
James Krag ... Usher
R. Gilbert Clayton ... Band Teacher
Patti Wilkus ... Home Economics Teacher
Martha Murphy ... Choir Teacher
Lucy Butler ... Maggie's Mom
Gary Cole ... Assistant Coach
Jerald Edward Cundiff Jr. ... Karger
Paul Grossman ... Extra
Rachel Wagner
Lucas (Corey Haim), the school wimp, a 14-year-old in high school on an accelerated course because of his brainieness, and therefore smaller than his classmates, falls for Maggie (Kerrie Green), a new girl in the school. They are friends, but when it comes to the romance department, to his great disappointment she falls for Cappie (Charlie Sheen), who is a jock.
Lucas becomes convinced that the only way to win his love was through the football hero route, and in spite of his diminutive size, he te tries out for the team without the coach's approval, who immediately throws him off the field.
Watch the movie for the rest of the story. It was a great story of young teenagers emotions, and unrequited love. If you are as impressed as I, you will enjoy this film a lot.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre
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