Word: leas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will be his mother, if -- big if -- he can deflect her crush on him toward the nice-guy nerd (Crispin Glover) who will be his father. All clear...
Added to this priority was Lamberg-Karlovsky interest in building up a tramed professional staff, said Administrator of Exhibits Lea S. McChesney. This "fundamental difference" has given the exhibit a "more professional approach," said Lamberg-Karlovsky...
...killed deer; later, asked what it was like to kill a man, he grunts, "It was good."The town high school's star quarterback (Patrick Swayze) turns to tossing grenades soon after his father shouts, "Avenge me! Avenge me!" He refuses, however, to kill a wounded female comrade (Lea Thompson), so she borrows a spare grenade to blow up herself and an enemy soldier. Red Dawn is too crude and incoherent to be taken either seriously by Milius' ideological allies or frivolously by the nuclear-freezers. So how to explain the robust $8.2 million in ticket sales...
...Mark S. Lea Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha...
...movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student's "getting off" in typing class to the amusement of his peers is one of several examples. Because director Chapman seems afraid to go completely beyond one level of sophomoric romance, All the Right Moves never quite reaches its potential...