Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tracey's life moves along merrily in its limited sphere until she encounters Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn) at a high school dance. Repeated shots of Rourke reviving up his motorcycle, along with scenes of him fighting with his alcoholic father show--in conventional. Hollywood style--that Rourke is from the other side of the tracks. Propelled by a sexual attraction she is just beginning to understand. Tracey follows Rourke on a program of rebellion and destruction that culminates in their escape from a high school Career Day on Rourke's motorcycle: complete with Tracey's friends calling her names...
...life at home and in school is represented so shallowly--her bedroom, for example, is decorated in flowers like a cheap innocence metaphor--that her indecision seems fickle rather than agonized. Her passion for Rourke takes on the same superficiality, and Hannah's performance becomes a mere foil for Quinn...
Perhaps Columbus and Foley were counting on Quinn to pull the film together. And the film almost gives him a chance to act well. He provokes the football coach (Cliff De Young) to kick him off the team, ending his career as high school football star. Then Rourke returns home only to quarrel with his alcoholic father (Kenneth McMillan) and to be kicked out of the house. Later, when his father dies. Quinn almost has a chance to exhibit sensitivity at the burial. But his performance is plagued by overkill. He acts with such superfluous violence and unprovoked anger that...
...Quinn's big line in one of the love scenes is the oft-heard "I just want to stay inside you like this forever...
After Harvard's Kimbro Stephens ran the 440-yds in a brisk 49.97 to earn second place. Thomas Quinn exploded in the 600-yd race, winning in 1:11.82 Quinn's strong performance set the tone for James Herberich, who secured second place...