Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...causes the commotion of a punk rocker intruding on an at home at Lady Astor's. Producer- Director George Butler catches many weirdly poignant moments, backstage and onstage, from a sport in which women declare their sexual independence by miming the physical self-absorption of the male jock. It's like a Jane Fonda workout carried to the edge of absurdity...
Cole emphasized that just because it is a sporting goods store, an applicant need not look like a jock. "You don't have to look like a skier. Khakies and a tie are good for a guy, a skirt or nice wool pants for a girl...
...Matthew Modine), concluding that you are born and then you die, decides to starve himself and train hard enough to drop two weight divisions and take on the most feared wrestler in the state, Brian Shute, as his grand fling into the nothingness that awaits him. Louden is a jock going for the gusto, a nihilist wrestling for a Michelob Light...
Vision Quest attempts to be two films at once: a coming of age flick and a jock-epic. As an adolescent identity search the film fails. Louden asks a lot of questions about sex which are neither interesting nor funny. He gets caught sniffing Carla's panties in the laundry room, and he writes a piece for the school paper on female reproductive organs. Yawn, Carla, unresponsive to Louden's sexual urgings, plays the stoic sex kitten for most of the movie. She doesn't even take off her clothes, destroying any hope of a teen-sex angle. In addition...
This is a big theme for a jock of Louden's sort to grasp--too big. It is almost laughable when characters in the movie mumble about the meaning of life and athletics. Becker would have been better letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Instead he lets the various characters take stabs at his nihilist theme, rendering it ridiculous. Louden brings up the meaning of life in English class. His boss at work throws around his philosophical views. Even a fellow wrestler does some moralizing...