Movie Review - Lucas (1986)

A look at first love

Lucas

The actor Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Winona Ryder and

Written and directed by David Seltzer

If you've seen many films at all in recent years, may know Lucas. Painfully familiar. It 's the story of a fourteen year nerd fall in love for the first time. Playwright price changes were working on this issue long before Romeo flirted, but there have been some recentImprovements in the venerable history of boy-meets-girl.

If Lucas is not an improvement, the plot is trivial (and not), has at least managed to salvage some respectability in the hands of teen sexploitation flicks lost.

Corey Haim (including a small role in the film was much better, Murphy's Romance) plays Lucas Blye, a genius with his first major crush harrowing fight softie. Sixteen years, Maggie, who Crusheen and new-is-in-town girl from Kerri Green (played byGoonies, Summer Rental). Charlie Sheen is Cappie Roewe, a football stud athlete, Lucas makes friends with Maggie and steal from him, with which the youthful love triangle.

Haim is very good, as the bug-loving, book wielding maverick who is ashamed of his family, finds his parents and has all the Scottish cheerleader and "superficial." And when Maggie looking for cheerleaders, Lucas is apparently stunned and resentful.

And 'here, the film makes a face-on,lose their original charm and cheerful sinking in a morass of hypocrisy. Having established a wonderful relationship between the young protagonist and the audience Lucas breaks the public trust. Up to this point, we were led to believe that this is Maggie Lucas Cappie, depressed that seriously considers suicide. And one of 'friends Lucas storms in the school band room, in a state of shock and disbelief, with alarming news: "Hey, youLucas? This is suicide! ... He is out for the football team. "

This is cheating the public in the worst way possible. After an hour of pleasant conversation, this movie is almost unwatchable. Lucas goes against everything he ever believed about the superficiality of high school athletics and the upper layers of selfish youth group, and decides to prove that it is a real man to wear a helmet and vest that are about four sizes too big so one to sit andprove to everyone that was on the grid.

If the film had tried to show that even superficially jocks and cheerleaders are human beings, it might well be redeemed. But this is not the message here. The message to Lucas has more to do with the sell-out for the good of love with artificial gaps connection between social classes.

The man responsible for this unfortunate turn of events is a veteran writer David Seltzer, who here is very irregularDirectorial debut. Seltzer, who holds 10:00 handkerchief for scripting films like six weeks, and Table for Five notes, mercifully pathos to a minimum here, and fail to provide a script with at least a minimum of intelligence and humor. Although Lucas is certainly better than teen movies, turns out to be something of a double-edged sword.