Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...J.T.T., this role barely differs from his normal schtick on "Home Improvement" it might as well be another hour of "TGI Friday" on ABC. Part of the problem is that he's a teen trying to act 21-he simply looks too young to be playing a college student. This stretches the believability of the story from the beginning, when the caption "Palisades College" flashes onto the screen as we see Jake and his freshfaced sidekick, Ian, walking past a row of lockers...
Nevertheless, it's clear why Sanford squished J.T.T. into the role anyway. Plot aside, the movie is essentially a Jonathan Taylor Thomas peep show riding on Thomas' teen idol/pinup boy status. The film provides us with plenty of closeups of J.T.T.'s tanned face and blue eyes, but I'll Be Home for Christmas clearly shows that you can't judge a book by its cover; Thomas never rises above the "I am trying to be funny," hamming-it-up style he perfected week after week on "Home Improvement...
...John Hughes movies defined growing up in the '80s, and the pre-teen fantasies of many of today's adolescents involved falling in love to songs like O.M.D.'s "If You Leave". And the recent '80s revival shows that it's apparently not just my blocking group friends who are obsessed with John Cusack holding up that boombox in Say Anything. Plus, every generation wants to take on the songs they grew up with. Reasons, reasons, reasons. Do they merit a full album of covers of teen movie themes from...
...many psychiatrists, this kind of freewheeling pharmacology makes sense. Childhood depression is not just a pint-size version of adult depression; teen suicide is a real danger, and when depression hits, doctors may hit back with whatever is available in the therapeutic arsenal...
...most controversial is The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, who asserts that relationships with peers--not parents--determine how children turn out. No less alarming is "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" by Hara Estroff Marano, who reports that peer rejection puts children at risk for dropping out, teen pregnancy, drugs, criminality and mental-health problems...