Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good schlock--like An American Werewolf in London or Risky Business--steps gingerly just this side of outright derision of its subjects. Bad schlock--St. Elmo's Fire--hates its characters intensely and usually ends up by offending us or making us squirm...
...exaggerated GQ-Cosmo style closeups, ST. ELMO'S FIRE (Sack Charles) overexposes itself as the vampire of the summer's lingering movie releases in two ways. For the obvious, whatever thoughts may lie within the well-posed actors' heads photograph as lamely as Dracula's own mug shot. Simply put, "Assume the Missionary Position," invites something other psychological speculation...
...Elmo's Fire is as unphotogenic as our big-toothed friend from Central Europe, it is also as charmingly seductive. The ever messed-up rich kid, the starry-eyed boys with love fixation, the political idealist turned proto-Yuppie: they are not Jungian archetypes or timeless characters of world literature, but they are, for some of us, too painfully familiar...
Sack Theaters: Daily listings. Charles: Camb. St. near Gov't Ctr., 227-1330. Back to the Future: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; St. Elmo's Fire: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Last Tango in Paris: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10; Cheri: Dalton opp. Sherton, Boston, 536-2870. Compromising Positions: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 9:45; Creator: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Volunteers: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 10. Cinema 57: 200 Stuart St. near Park St., Boston, 482-1222. Fright Night...
...little of both. The virtue and the defect of this essentially good-natured movie is that its script, by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander, does not play a steady light on any of its several stories, but bounces erratically from one to another like -- well, like St. Elmo's fire. The shifting prevents the movie from getting bogged in the banal, but it also prevents it from achieving much emotional resonance...