This Is One Of My Favorite Movies Ever! i Absolutely Love It!

Brooke Shields and that guy are an attractive couple, but this movie is not that great. I watched the first 20 minutes then I stopped because I kept waiting for the excitement to happen, and it was a huge disappointment.

I don't know why, but I started disliking this movie even during the opening credits! Is it because the boy and girl both have excessively pretty eyes? Or because the parents are wealthy, drinking, smoking socialists who let give their kids a party where drugs are used openly? Or because the daughter and her father kiss each other on the face during a love song? Or is it Lionel Richie's title song, which is really about falling in love (rather than staying together after the initial infatuation wears off)?

This happened in my family when I and my sister were teenagers during that era. My father, however, gave the boy a choice: military, or prison. I'm sure you can guess which one he chose.

So, I had never seen this movie before (I was 4 in 1981), but I remember the song from the Adam Sandler movie Happy Gilmore, and I remember him talking about it in that film, so I thought I would give it a shot. It was interesting, to say the least. And I can relate with the whole teenage love thing (who can't?), but I also grew out of that person I was when I had my first love. And it disturbs me that Jade didn't - at all - and that she was absolutely completely willing to go back to that psycho. Yes, he was her "first," but come on! He set her house on fire - with her inside - and admitted that he did it!And the dad getting hit by the bus thing!?!?!?!? Having watched (and loved) Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, I had high hopes for this film. I was really quite disappointed. Still, it's an interesting study in obsession.