Well, this seems like a standard teen drama, and probably an inspiration for Friday Night Lights, also…wait a minute, why is there full frontal male nudity in this? Tom Cruise had a penis double!
This is the first Tom Cruise movie featuring the Tom Cruise run. Tom Cruise is the best movie runner of all time. In this movie, he races his girlfriend to his house after meeting her outside on the street corner where she is playing the saxophone (yes, that is an actual scene from this movie). He DESTROYS her in this race. Lea Thompson cannot movie run for shit. Tom Cruise looks like he’s auditioning for the Olympic 100 meter dash.
There’s a scene later in the movie where Cruise’s character stands up in front of his high school football teammates at a party to give a speech. Why does he want to give a speech? Because he’s Tom Cruise. His audience stares at him, captivated, as he says, smiling, “And on the 5th day, God created cheerleaders.” Everyone laughs. Then Tom turns dead serious. An archetype is born.
The rest of the movie is pretty boring.
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