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...love with a dishy senior (Michael Schoeffling) and shadowed by a crypto-hip freshman called the Geek (Anthony Michael Hall), who, in one of his more winsome moments, asks Sam if he can borrow her underpants. The plot, which will be reprised in Pretty in Pink, is familiar from schlock immemorial, but Hughes' acute ear for teen talk makes it fresh and funny. Listen to Sam and her girlfriend Randy (Liane Curtis) wax ironic on every girl's dream for the day she turns sweet 16: "There'd be a big party, and a band and tons of people...
...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...
...elect a mayor. New York City or Chicago should have such a choice. The incumbent, Charlotte Townsend, 61, is a no-nonsense woman who cut her teeth on the board of the village library. Paul Laub, 41, who has amassed a million or so as Carmel's czar of schlock, purveying T shirts and other bric-a-brac, made his name fighting city hall over issues like illegally washing his sidewalk. A college-trained tenor and restaurant worker named Tim Grady, 27, an echo of the Woodstock generation who has no use for cars, wants to turn Carmel's main...
Because Joshua is so transparently hostile on the subject of religion and because it persists in taking itself too seriously, it must eternally be categorized as ethnic-schlock a brand tellingly dubbed shock-schlock With this variety, we are made, rather forced--for it is rammed down our throats--to feel the appalling "weirdness" of the ethnics in question...
...schlock-schlock goes, Joshuais a downer. But then, when it comes to trash, I'm a purist...