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Deeply troubled youths like Rick and Lonnie (played by Zach Galligan and ^ Molly Ringwald) are cropping up in unprecedented numbers this season. Another depressed teen killed himself last fall on the CBS movie Silence of the Heart. The roles were reversed earlier this month in NBC's A Reason to Live, in which a well-adjusted 14-year-old (Ricky Schroder) tried to talk his despondent father out of suicide. Last week, in CBS's Not My Kid, two parents were shattered to discover that their 15-year-old daughter (Viveka Davis) was a drug abuser. Still to come...
...film begins on Samantha Baker's (Molly Ringwald) sixteenth birthday, but soon shows that turning sixteen is not "sweet," adolescence not as idyllic as it seems in retrospect. The film is packed with the special pains of the age--embarassing crushes, parents who never fail to miss the point, and a perpetual crisis of self-confidence Sixteen Candles is also filled with the familiar cast of characters, however, Hughes explores the stereotypical "geek," "studly guy" and "awkward freshman" with little of the predictability that characterizes most films about adolescence. Hughes instead captures these awkward years with a rare blend...
...Ringwald, in her major film debut, gives Tempest's most believable performance as a teenager struggling to establish her own identity stuck on a rock in the middle of the Mediterranean in an intentional parallel to Phillip's own search. When she tells an admiring Sam Robards. "I'm not exactly beautiful, besides. I'm a virgin," it is pure adolescent poetry...
TEMPEST IS BEST in its simplest moments. Cinematographer Don McAlpine's opening shots of the stark geography of Phillip's island do more than just stir a feeling of wonder--they wrench it from deep down inside, ably abetted by Stomu Yamashita's eerie, haunting score, Miranda (Molly Ringwald) and Aretha provide welcome lightness with their a capella renditions of the pop tune. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?," a protest of the harsh conditions of their voluntary captivity. As the island's actual inhabitant. Raul Julia as Kalibanos is a nearly perfect primitive, adoring his goats and his Sony...
Mazursky's modern Prospero is Phillip Dimitrious (John Cassavetes), a successful Manhattan architect careering toward a nervous breakdown. He loves his actress wife (Gena Rowlands) but is tired of her. He loves his 14-year-old daughter (a lovely duckling named Molly Ringwald) without quite understanding his paternal possessiveness of her. His rage expresses itself in sudden lightning storms that streak the Manhattan skies and act as the mysterious percussion to the mad music inside his head. Off he goes to Greece, where he finds an earthbound Ariel (the sweetly sensible Susan Sarandon), and finally to his dream isle...