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...Brat Pack. She needs only a few credits for her bachelor's degree at the University of Southern California. A partly written novel lies fallow. Good sense rules her life, though she has been known to wander off go- cart driving with Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson (respectively, the jock and the punk of The Breakfast Club, and the waiter and Sheedy's lover of the hanging-out-after-college film St. Elmo's Fire...
...century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
...trendies are involved in this one. Brat-packsters Nelson and Ally Sheedy are stars, actors who in Bogart's day would be lucky to get a job in a department store window. Walter Hill, the workmanlike directorial panderer who gave us such hyped-up schlock as 48 HRS and Streets of Fire takes credit for co-producing and co-writing, while Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club leftover Michelle Manning directed...
Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...
...film of this caliber is complete without a love interest--I think Nelson has something about that in his contract. My guess is that he and Sheedy must have hit it off when they were filming The Breakfast Club or St. Elmo's Fire because here she is again, a couple of hundred miles south of the locations in which we saw her last, but present nonetheless. As Annie, Eddie's straight-laced civil-servant sister, Sheedy doesn't have a whole lot to work with in terms of character development. In the role of a co-detective trying...