’” What happened to such films, in which unruly adolescents ran wild, swearing and otherwise disrespecting authority? Steven Spielberg happened, for starters. Amblin productions like &ldqu...
” After spending his first night at the Kicklighter home, Michael awakens to find the brothers mud-dogging in his Porsche. How does such a guy, who seems more concerned about his car than his si...
He’s not only selfish, but completely inexperienced, both with parenting and life on the farm — and the implication is that whoever adopts the Kicklighter kids will be responsible for all ...
What the movie needs isn’t a shaggy Christmas pageant, but the kind of catharsis one might expect when four of its characters lost their mom, and the fifth ought to be mourning his sister. Looki...