Resources: IMDb * Wikipedia
Premise: High school skier loses girlfriend to jock, decides to do something drastic to get her back, and learns more about living and life along the way
Stars: John Cusack, Curtis Armstrong, Diane Franklin, David Ogden Stiers, Amanda Wyss
Review: One of Cusack's seminal teen heartthrob roles sees him as Lane Myer, local ski enthusiast. He's obsessively in love with his girlfriend, but loses the opportunistic wench to a local self-absorbed "King of the Mountain" type jock. He keeps thinking of ways to kill himself, always deciding to not follow through at the last minute. He has friends in Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, and meets the foreign exchange student next door.
It's a typical 80s teen movie (this and One Crazy Summer are nearly the same film, albeit with a different cast and plot), but Cusack makes you love the film regardless. It's filled with memorable vignettes, including an obsessive (see the familiar theme?) paperboy, a stop-motion sequence with a hamburger set to Van Halen's "Everybody Wants Some", a cameo from Porky himself (the bad guy from the Porky's film series, not Porky Pig), and downhill skiing.
Rating: Good
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