title: The Mall
author: Handfield, Don
description: “The Breakfast Club meets Goodfellas.” – Graphic Policy   Three 1980s teenagers from different cliques learn they are all related when a Florida crime boss leaves them each stores in the local mall that are really fronts for the mob in this surprisingly touching genre mashup about family and fitting in.   It’s 1985 in suburban Florida...The QUARTERBACK, the PRINCESS and the GEEK all find out they’re related when their real father, a low-level Florida crime boss, dies at the hands of the mafia and leaves them each a store inside the local mall. The catch is, the stores are fronts for the mob, and the teens must decide whether to break bad or try to go legit, all while trying to navigate all the high stakes John Hughes type high school drama of the 1980s. Finding a date for the prom is one thing, but doing it with the Columbian drug cartel out to kill you is another.