A 'Brat Pack' movie from just before 'Brat Pack' became an insult.

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2002)

I can't separate this film from how I first saw it - in a cinema in San Francisco in 1985, after a 14 hour flight from Sydney. I mainly went there to keep myself awake and get over jet lag. Well, it kept me awake all right: I liked it so much that 4 weeks later, the night before flying back to Australia, I saw it again in the same cinema.
I was 23 when I saw it: no longer a teen (though the same age as some of the stars!) but my memories of being a teen were still fresh. Few teenagers are that articulate, but so what? It's true to what teenagers experience.

Apparently Ally Sheedy was originally going to play the Molly Ringwald role. The one thing that could have improved TBC would have been Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez swapping roles.