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Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2026 / No comments / ally sheedy , brat pack , comedy , eighties , emilio estevez , john hughes , judd nelson , molly ringwald , paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/05/judd-nelson-MTG.html">MAKING THE GRADE,</a> Judd Nelson played the biggest post-collegiate geek ever for Kevin Costner's indie breakthrough F<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/07/fandango.html">ANDANGO</a>... before ironically poking fun at high school geek Anthony Michael Hall in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB...<br><br>As Nelson's criminal character John Bender isn't anything like the typical BLACKBOARD JUNGLE teen rebel... his <i>cause</i> is basically being a demonic Phil Donahue within an 8-hour Saturday detention, also goading pretty popular Molly Ringwald, handsome jock Emilio Estevez, and neurotic pre-goth Ally Sheedy into eventually seeking their true feelings about topics ranging from homelife parentals to high school popularity...</p><p><span></span></p>

ally sheedy, brat pack, comedy, eighties, emilio estevez, john hughes, judd nelson, molly ringwald, paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2 In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper MAKING THE GRADE, Jud...

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

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 group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of
 dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each 
other to depend on<span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus
 in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. 
ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB just as
 CLUB has graduated past SIXTEEN CANDLES (only this has nothing to do 
with John Hughes, amazingly enough)...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div>

ally sheedy, andie macdowell, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, emilio estevez, joel schumaker, judd nelson, mare winningham, melodrama, romance

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2 A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

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for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about 
the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City,
 now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br>
<br>
Seeking
 clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David 
Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what 
makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, 
Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced.
 She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar 
fight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a d...

ROB LOWE W/ ANDREW MCCARTHY & JACQUELINE BISSET IN 'CLASS'

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alan ruck, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, jacqueline bisset, john cusack, rob lowe, romantic comedy, sex comedy, stuart margolin

ROB LOWE W/ ANDREW MCCARTHY & JACQUELINE BISSET IN 'CLASS'

Opening credit for CLASS from 1983 Rating: *** While CLASS stars future Brat Packers Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy before ST. ELMO'S FIR...

PRETTY IN PINK BY JOHN HUGHES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer headline PRETTY IN PINK written by John Hughes</u></td></tr>
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Like GREMINS or BACK TO THE FUTURE is to Steven Spielberg, here's a popular John Hughes movie, one of many during the 1980s, wherein he's the Executive Producer (and in John's case, Writer), not the Director, and if you really look close, it shows: while some of the characters have potential, there's simply no direction at all...<br>

andrew dice clay, andrew mccarthy, annie potts, brat pack, eighties, harry dean stanton, james spader, john hughes, jon cryer, molly ringwald

PRETTY IN PINK BY JOHN HUGHES

Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer headline PRETTY IN PINK written by John Hughes Like GREMINS or BACK TO THE FUTURE is to ...

AN ECLECTIC BRATFUL BAGFUL OF ROB LOWE CINEMA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1985 rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<i>Rob Lowe was the likable mannequin of 1980's cinema... His films and performances range from comatose to vigorous, and either defined the Brat Pack decade or got lost in video rental abyss... So let's take a look at a few of Lowe's eclectic cinematic endeavours, years before rebooting his career as a dramatic television actor...</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>ST. ELMO'S FIRE:</b></span> A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest 
of dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each 
other to depend on: Thus in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB as Judd Nelson plays Alec, the group’s shallow mentor, a hopeful in 
politics who switches from Democrat to Republican because the pay is 
better. His girlfriend Leslie... another CLUB alumni Ally Sheedy... 
doesn’t want to get married – a wise choice since Alec has the 
philandering sex drive of a Kennedy. And Emilio Estevez’s Kirby takes the lightweight mantel: he’s 
smitten with a gorgeous doctor (Andie MacDowell) and tries everything to
 land a date.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rob Lowe as Billy</td></tr>
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The artistic bookends are two polar opposites: Andrew McCarthy’s Kevin is a hopeful journalist while the “still partying like he’s back at school” Billy, a scene-stealing Rob Lowe, plays sax and women despite having a wife and child.  <br />
<br />
Demi Moore’s Jules is the most enjoyable... She’s
 as wild as Lowe's Billy and, having an affair with her boss and a penchant for
 cocaine and good times, her girlfriends, including mousy Mare 
Winningham's rich kid Wendy (hopelessly in love with a womanizing Lowe, providing the most intriguing "romance"), doesn’t understand what makes her tick… 
like an inevitable time bomb! Leading to a heartfelt conversation between Lowe and Moore, which includes the meaning of the film's ambiguous title. Director Joel Schumacher’s script never lets the clichés rest and the 
dialogue's far too contrived to seem completely real. But by the end 
there’s a feeling you really know these people – although you might be 
torn whether to hug or slug them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1986 rating: *1/2 </td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>YOUNGBLOOD:</b></span> Hilariously
 banal ice hockey version of ALL THE RIGHT MOVES has Rob Lowe as an 
American playing for a Canadian team.<br />
<br />
He's got a tough coach played by character actor Ed Lauter, some rowdy teammates including Patrick Swayze, love interest 
Cynthia Gibb (who just happens to be the coach's daughter), and older 
bro Jim Youngs teaching him how to fight like a real man, despite resembling an Elvin supermodel. The filler dialogue goes absolutely 
nowhere, and the action on the ice, cutting back and forth to the locker
 room, kills any rivalry-driven suspense. It's like watching a soap opera while surfing sports channels, or vice versa.<br />
<br />
Rob Lowe can act, but not 
here. And prepare to witness Keanu Reeves, who has a difficult enough 
time performing in English, speaking French!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1983 rating: ***</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>CLASS:</b> </span>Two movies for the price of one... The first has Andrew 
McCarthy as a shy freshman at a strict Ivy League college, meeting 
confident rich kid Rob Lowe and dealing with his practical jokes. Lowe has a lot of energy here, and makes for a worthy antagonist-mentor. The 
second has McCarthy, after striking out with girls his age, hitting the 
big city with Lowe's money and advice: to find a <i>real</i> woman and 
get laid.<br />
<br />
Well he does, but with Lowe's mother: gorgeous forty-year old 
Jacqueline Bisset. And while the sex scenes are overlong and overdone, 
as if they remade THE GRADUATE more steamy than implied, the May/August 
relationship is involving.<br />
<br />
But when both stories collide... McCarthy and
 Bisset hiding the truth from her son, and his best friend... things get
 overcomplicated: making one yearn for that first movie dealing with 
college life banality. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1987 rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>ILLEGALLY YOURS:</b> </span>It's sad when you track down forgotten films by a great director, in 
this case Peter Bogdanovich, and cannot find a trace of what made them 
great. TARGETS, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, PAPER MOON and SAINT JACK 
are nowhere to be found here: It's basically a revamp of WHAT'S UP, DOC? with Rob Lowe filling in Ryan O'Neal's shoes, a handsome dolt donning nerdy 
glasses, while Colleen Camp plays the 
Streisand independent-woman-in-trouble role role.<br />
<br />
YOURS is a whole lot of silly running around with
 nowhere to go, and while Bog started his career channeling Howard Hawks, 
Samuel Fuller, Alfred Hitchcock and (his once close friend) Orson Welles, he ended
 up making keystone cop silent films with sound and absolutely no purpose... What's 
up, Pete? <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE:</b></span> Arguably, this was Lowe's lowest point, and Jodie Foster's too... The film adaptation of John 
Irving's fantastic novel centers on the eccentric nomadic Berry clan but focuses 
mainly on the teenage son, played by Rob Lowe, and daughter Jodie 
Foster, during the purgatory stage of her career, two sexually curious, coming-of-age middle children (both infatuated with a sexy bear suit wearing Nastassja Kinski) of a quirky Beau Bridges who 
runs the hotels with an ever-optimistic look on life no matter how many 
bad things happen. <br />
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The book delves with casual irony into subjects like 
terrorism, rape and incest, getting away with turning a glib cheek to 
all things taboo (including homosexuality, which wasn't as discussed in 
the early/mid eighties). An abundance of overly obvious symbols, like, for instance, a dog named 
Sorrow, works in the novel because it's strictly thematic and never 
forced. But on the big screen it comes across pretentious and silly, par for the course of this particular motion picture.<br />
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HOTEL was probably made because of the success (and brilliance) of Irving's THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, a much easier narrative to translate: it's at
 least about something, or rather, someone. And while GARP centered on a
 mainline story with tragic weirdness surrounding it, this centers on 
weird tragedy with no real story to be found: in what might possibly be the 
worst adaptation ever made. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>BAD INFLUENCE:</b></span> Here we go again... A wimpy, passive guy who seems to have everything he 
wants, only he can't stand up for himself. Has no guts and is secretly dying for a mentor to show him the way...<br />
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Enter a confident drifter who
 turns his life around, and around and around and around some more.<br />
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James Spader, breaking 
from his villainous yuppie template, is the nice guy. Rob Lowe, fresh 
from a  scandal that would ruin his career for a while, is the rogue helping 
Spader score a beautiful lady and progress in his job: but with a price. He can't shake Rob loose, and eventually is enveloped in an extremely ironic sex tape scandal, a beating, and then a murder... The first half
 is Film Noiresque and builds nicely. The last half, as Lowe turns from 
dapper sociopath to full blown psycho, becomes your typical kill or be 
killed fare.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1986 rating: **1/2</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>ABOUT LAST NIGHT:</b> </span>By far the most energetic duo of ST. ELMO'S FIRE was the bad boy and the bad girl. That being Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, who, only a year later, have all grown up...<br />
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Which is the first flaw of ABOUT LAST NIGHT, yet another Brat Pack venture that expects us to see twenty-something going through a mid-life crisis, and trying to figure out about a life that they're already well weary of.<br />
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That's not to say NIGHT doesn't have good moments. The chemistry between Lowe and Moore, playing two busy professionals living in Chicago, is engaging enough... For a little while... <br />
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It's interesting how Lowe's character has to be described as too handsome to be hanging around single's bars. Instead of finding the right angle or opening line, he simply implies his intentions are good while "beating 'em off with a stick," making him a guy not everyone can relate to. Which provides the scene-stealing regular guy Jim Belushi, as Lowe's exposition spouting crony, a chance to grab the spotlight... but he's not alone...<br />
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Playing Demi's girlfriend is Elizabeth Perkins, who a few years later would prove a decent leading lady in a tale about a man who is really a child: the polar opposite of this movie.<br />
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Perkins is like the supporting "fun gal" from classic comedies while Belushi, as everyone's favorite drunk uncle, are a combined color commentary on an otherwise dull pretty boy/pretty girl matchup. <br />
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Of course the title ABOUT LAST NIGHT... refers to the awkward moment when "victims" of a one-night stand bring up what had happened, and those three following dots imply that <i>something </i>extends from that particular night where the true romantic entanglement/adventures exists. But other than the comic relief co-stars providing the only real honest evaluations of sex and... more and more sex... what we're left with is an awkward silence with plenty of background noise. Although every once or twice, if you really listen, there's something to be heard, and learned, herein.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>OXFORD BLUES:</b></span> It's difficult if impossible to root for a guy who has everything going for him. Even if Rob Lowe's character is a climber that really wants to get the girl, and has to travel across the Atlantic to win her heart, his confident leather jacket wearing gigolo is so unsympathetic, you'll find yourself rooting for the bad guys...<br />
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And they're not so bad, really, just a conceited bunch of British rowing jocks at Oxford University that have no trust in Lowe's Nick Angelo... The only person in his narrowed corner is fellow brat packer Ally Sheedy as Rona. Despite the second credit she's merely filler, providing the ingenue spotlight to dreamgirl Amanda Pays, who, as Lady Victoria Wingate, doesn't find it too hard to be attracted to the perfect looking "Ugly American," and there's little to no chemistry between the duo since there's hardly any problems in the first place... That is if you don't count a few snobby Brits led by future WARLOCK actor Julian Sands, trying his very best to add something, anything, to pick up the lethargic pace.<br />
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What OXFORD BLUES has going for it is the sport of rowing, shown in gorgeous exterior shots of a picture/postcard England, and an eventual ROCKY fashioned underdog vibe that, although given some potential early on, wags itself to sleep since our hero, hardly up the creek without a paddle, has very little obstacles<i> </i>to be either interesting or relatable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1988 rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>MASQUERADE:</b></span> Finishing our retrospective, not including THE OUTSIDERS which will be covered at another time and place... In MASQUERADE, Rob Lowe’s Tim Whalen has all the advantages of a good-looking sailboat aficionado but without any money.<br />
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That’s where Meg Tilly’s Olivia Lawrence comes in handy, although their mellow romance feels legitimate and not of the gold-digging nature. Tim seems smitten with the breezy heiress, who only has a wicked stepfather to contend with. Enter a potentially good villain played by the always interesting John Glover – which doesn’t last very long…<br />
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The romance between Lowe and Tilly are what dreams are made of… sleep, that is. Their drowsy affair is reignited with several twists having to do with Lowe not being who he seems. Meanwhile Tilly, perfectly cast in THE BIG CHILL, seems in a dizzy daze throughout. It’s like she either forgot how to act or just didn’t care. And future MELROSE PLACE resident Doug Savant, as a lovelorn local cop turned something unexpected, is a pale replacement for the villainous Glover, making this a Neo Noir melodrama that lacks… well... just about everything.</div>
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AN ECLECTIC BRATFUL BAGFUL OF ROB LOWE CINEMA

year: 1985 rating: ***1/2 Rob Lowe was the likable mannequin of 1980's cinema... His films and performances range from comatose to v...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/20/2014 / No comments / action , ally sheedy , anita morris , brat pack , david caruso , eighties , judd nelson , neo noir , scott wilson , walter hill

WALTER HILL PRESENTS THE BRAT PACK NOIR OF 'BLUE CITY'

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WALTER HILL PRESENTS THE BRAT PACK NOIR OF 'BLUE CITY'

year: 1986 rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a...

Written by James M. Tate / 12/08/2013 / No comments / action , ally sheedy , brat pack , judd nelson , scott wilson

ACTION BRAT PACKED: THE HIDDEN CULT OF 'BLUE CITY'

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ACTION BRAT PACKED: THE HIDDEN CULT OF 'BLUE CITY'

Scott Wilson fights the good guys YEAR: 1986 It's simple, really: In most cases, a Cult Film takes itself more seriously than the au...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/30/2012 / 1 Comment / brat pack , dennis hopper , eighties , harvey keitel , molly ringwald , robert downey jr. , romantic comedy

RINGWALD WITH DOWNEY JR. PLAYING 'THE PICK-UP ARTIST'

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When the group of BREAKFAST CLUB actors, warming their bones by ST. ELMO’S FIRE following the initial sweet SIXTEEN CANDLES party, a few performers escaped the infamous label that might have tarnished their careers… After all, who can take a brat seriously… especially if there’s a whole pack of them?<br />
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Well Robert Downey Jr. appeared in both WEIRD SCIENCE and JOHNNY BE GOOD with Anthony Michael Hall; LESS THAN ZERO with Andrew McCarthy; and then this little known, quirky romance with Molly Ringwald...<br />
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And so, as the title, THE PICK-UP ARTIST, implies, Robert has a line for every beautiful woman on the street – from typical lanky supermodels to more artistically cute starlets (like Anne Bobby, shown above)... He almost always winds up with a phone number... until something happens... A vision in the form of redhead Ringwald’s Randy Jensen who, hanging out at a mob-run nightclub and in debt with gangster Harvey Keitel, is anything but a damsel in distress...<br />
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She's assertive and opinionated and unfortunately, for a guy like Downey’s Jack Jericho, where <i>the chase</i> is everything, very loose and progressive – they’re in back of his car within hours of meeting, and, afterwards, she's not smitten: He’s just another number... In fact she doesn't even want his... Which causes Jack to drop his skirt-chasing habit and he has but one goal: to get Randy and "friend" Dennis Hopper out of debt. And there’s something new around every corner of this diamond in the rough rom-com: Although the best moments have Downey by himself trying to wheel his way into, out of, around and about schemes with a wry likeable countenance, no surprise to his IRON MAN fan base. And this kind of quirky crime flick would become normal in just a few years, making it either ahead of its time or not fully cooked. <br />
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