Edward Zwick's big screen debut is an outlier amongst the big budget epics that make up the bulk of his filmography, but it fits nicely with Thirtysomething and the rest of his yuppi-emo TV work. A loose adaptation of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, the screenplay (cowritten by Tim Kazurinsky!) sands off the misanthropic edges of Mamet's play to deliver a pleasant romantic drama with a tacked on happy ending. Rob Lowe and Demi Moore have great chemistry, a…
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The Legend of Billie Jean 1985
I've had this on my radar for a while and it lived up to its cult status. Helen Slater is fantastic as the title character. It's too bad she's mostly known for playing Supergirl and not for roles like this. Young Christian Slater and Yeardley Smith are a lot of fun as small town Texas teens, as is Martha Geiman, an actress I wasn't familiar with who is the daughter of Estelle Parsons. It's interesting how many 80s teen films…
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Funny Farm 1988
The late '80s are generally considered the beginning of the end of Chevy's classic run, with the decade ending with the lows of Caddyshack II and Fletch Lives. But sandwiched in the middle is a low-key gem that had the unfortunate luck to come out the same summer as Big, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and other box office hits. Like many, I had unfairly lumped Funny Farm into Chevy's nadir and had missed it when it was a cable and…
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Bad Influence 1990
Curtis Hanson was a reliable hand at the type of high concept, slick potboilers that no longer get made and this yuppie thriller ticks all the late '80s/early '90s genre boxes. Lavish parties, goth clubs, grey corporate offices, a saxy score, video cameras and giant TVs as plot points...it's all here and well framed by Hanson. David Koepp's script contains some effective scenes (there's a chilling murder staged via videotape) as well as plenty of overripe dialogue and very little…
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