Your parents are going out of town for a week. You are graduating from high school and haven't even been laid. Your friends have a future that is secure, but you seem to be going nowhere fast. Maybe, just maybe, while your parents are gone this weekend, you should say, "What the F*ck???" (sic, quote from movie) and live a little bit more ....
This is a brilliant movie, about life's choices, about living a little, taking chances, with a very positive message for people willing to risk living "outside the box". Starring a 17-year old kid who's been thoroughly screwed up by his overly strict parents ....
A lot of people miss the point of this movie. Joel takes chances, and pays DEARLY and REPEATEDLY for the chances he takes. He goes at least $1000 in the hole over the course of this movie, but ends up ahead in life because HIS FAMILY had clearly screwed up his brain and having a GIRLFRIEND and TRYING SOMETHING NEW has put him on the road to recovery.
A few puritans gave this movie a 5 because they mistakenly think it has something to say about prostitution or making money. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the prostitutes in this movie are the most unbelievable and unpredictable characters, and Joel ends up roughly $1000 in the hole. A few others give it a 5 because the music is by New Age band Tangerine dream, and New Age is still not a very popular media. I give the movie a 10 for message, a 10 for cruise's facial acting (and dancing), and a 10 for irony and twists and surprises, over and over and over again.
The love scenes between Cruise and De Mornay are IMHO, as good as anything that's been in movies for the past 20 years, while still being somewhere between PG13 and R rated, e.g. pretty tame.
This is a brilliant movie, about life's choices, about living a little, taking chances, with a very positive message for people willing to risk living "outside the box". Starring a 17-year old kid who's been thoroughly screwed up by his overly strict parents ....
A lot of people miss the point of this movie. Joel takes chances, and pays DEARLY and REPEATEDLY for the chances he takes. He goes at least $1000 in the hole over the course of this movie, but ends up ahead in life because HIS FAMILY had clearly screwed up his brain and having a GIRLFRIEND and TRYING SOMETHING NEW has put him on the road to recovery.
A few puritans gave this movie a 5 because they mistakenly think it has something to say about prostitution or making money. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the prostitutes in this movie are the most unbelievable and unpredictable characters, and Joel ends up roughly $1000 in the hole. A few others give it a 5 because the music is by New Age band Tangerine dream, and New Age is still not a very popular media. I give the movie a 10 for message, a 10 for cruise's facial acting (and dancing), and a 10 for irony and twists and surprises, over and over and over again.
The love scenes between Cruise and De Mornay are IMHO, as good as anything that's been in movies for the past 20 years, while still being somewhere between PG13 and R rated, e.g. pretty tame.