Academy Awards, USA 1987
| Nominated Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Raynold Gideon Bruce A. Evans |
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Rob Reiner
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Columbia TriStar)
Four young friends set off from their idyllic small town in 1950s Oregon to look for the body of a boy rumored to have been killed by a train. Along the way, they discover a lot about each other, and themselves, and lose a bit of their childhood innocence. Unfortunately, I didn't buy into any of it. The performances seemed forced, the entire situation absurd and the 50s nostalgia grating. The narration and wraparound segment with Richard Dreyfuss only made things worse.
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