Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2016 / No comments / christopher collet , corey haim , eighties , peter weller , robert downey jr. , suspense , teri garr
CHRIS COLLET FIRSTBORN, PETER WELLER MOVING IN
Peter Weller doesn't trust no one and holds all the cards in FIRSTBORN |
Collet sees through Weller in this lobby card with... the original title? |
Autographed by Dr. Robocop 4/09/16 |
While Weller's Sam is no vampire, he's quite similar as he comes alive at night after suffering daylong hangovers. Like, for instance, when his shimmering blue eyes are shocked-wide because of... well when Collet's Jake asks if he, Sam, got enough sleep, Sam nods, smiles askew, and does a brilliant fake yawn while nodding "Yes," telling us plenty and making his future "ways of possibly acquiring loads of money" not very shocking as British director Michael Apted, known for woodsy locales, puts everyone within a pot-boiling frying pan where intensity creeps around each and every corner, mostly occurring within a very limited structure and, although we traipse through a shopping mall, all around a high school and the great outdoors, FIRSTBORN needs just those four walls to accomplish its overall riveting, edgy goal.
Robert Downey Jr |
TRIVIA: Robert Downey Jr. plays one of Collet's buddies, a bunch of kids hanging out and goofing off like in ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, all tossing juvenile one-liners around like a hacky-sack, and he's the same kinda goof who was pals with Keith Gordon in the college satire classic BACK TO SCHOOL starring Rodney Dangerfield: a punk rock mess who makes no sense and isn't very funny, and really has no shape to his face... Downey is one of the rare instances of an actor who not only grew more talented, but better looking as the years went by, despite all the damage done by drugs: unlike Weller's fictional Sam, Downey seemed to benefit from all his past mistakes, somehow... And playing a banal teen friend but with less dialogue is future ALIVE star Josh Hamilton while another soon-to-be famous 80's staple, who would dominate the 90's cable scene, is SQUARE PEGS alumni future SEX AND THE CITY star Sarah Jessica Parker, doing a good job despite her character being, while lovely and genuine, a tad too good a thing for a hero (Collet) who needed more odds stacked to develop • And Collet and the late Corey Haim would turn up in a few years in the cult film dud that is very fun to make fun of and almost impossible to find, exploiting the rollerblade craze and having to do with a made-up drug, taking place (if memory serves) in the future, PRAYER FOR THE ROLLERBOYS, wherein Christopher is the bad guy, Haim the hero • And any Cult Film Freak fans getting a sense of Deja reading this Review, we took a previous glimpse at FIRSTBORN on a LIST of DESERT ISLAND PICKS aka movies to watch if stuck on a desert island aka movies you can see on a loop.
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