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TAKE A LOOK at the advertisement for Lucas in any movie listings section. You'll see two teenagers at close quarters who'll remind you of the captain of your high school football team and his cheerleader girlfriend, and you'll have correctly guessed their roles in the film. Off...
The advertisement hints at the conflict at the center of this mostly realistic, teen comedy-drama. Lucas (Corey Haim) is an intelligent, sensitive kid with deficient social skills. In short, he's a nerd.
This Rocky of the teen-age wasteland has spent his life avoiding the bout of the social arena, not just out of fear, but because he doesn't believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner...
Kerri Green, as a transfer student from another school, is the fair maiden. Initially, she is drawn into a summer friendship with Lucas, sharing his love of classical music and biological oddities. But, alas, she becomes distant as she is caught up in the whirl of high school activities once...
TO MAKE THINGS more difficult, Lucas isn't the only one after the fair maiden. Cap (Charlie Sheen--yes, another member of the family), is also interested. The pregnant irony of this triangle, an irony that could have been better developed, is that Cap and Maggie are united in their...