Word: galligan
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Deeply troubled youths like Rick and Lonnie (played by Zach Galligan and ^ Molly Ringwald) are cropping up in unprecedented numbers this season. Another depressed teen killed himself last fall on the CBS movie Silence of the Heart. The roles were reversed earlier this month in NBC's A Reason to Live, in which a well-adjusted 14-year-old (Ricky Schroder) tried to talk his despondent father out of suicide. Last week, in CBS's Not My Kid, two parents were shattered to discover that their 15-year-old daughter (Viveka Davis) was a drug abuser. Still to come...
...apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent...
...movie's wildest, wittiest sequence, the gremlins invade a neighborhood bar and turn it into Porky's Goes to the Star Wars Cantina. As Leading Man Galligan describes the scene, "They pick their noses, they snap their fingers, they drink lots of beer. One gremlin in a raincoat is a flasher. There's a Jennifer Beals gremlin who breakdances. Five gremlins play poker; one of them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There...