Oh. Heck. Yes. Loved it. I saw it twice in the theater. It's just fun. I love seeing Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling play off each other. And even the precocious kid that would normally annoy me was a nice addition to the cast. Actually all the kids were fine.
It takes place in the 70's, just slightly before I would have been aware of the world but the 80's weren't really much different. Just different clothes. And I think I could relate a bit to the kids in the movie. I mean, not that my dad was a raging drunk who I drove around or that he and his buddy were investigating missing porn stars. It's more the feeling of freedom, of not being tied to electronics, of home phones and riding in the back of cars without your seatbelt. And we all survived. Mostly.
There's fun action, good fights and lots of really excellent dialogue. A sheer pleasure watching a nine-year-old girl ask the guy who beat up (sucker punched) her father to beat up her friend Janet (she's really tall and very annoying) while dad tries to deflect with apple pie. And for a movie with missing porn stars, there's very little sexual nudity.
I look forward to this coming out on DVD and will most likely add it to my collection for winter movie marathons that start with "Clueless."
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