Mask (1985)

Posted by sc83x ⋅ August 18, 2011

Filed Under 1985, Alexandra Powers, Allison Roth, Barry Tubb, bathroom, bedroom, best friend, cafeteria, Christopher Rydell, classroom, Eric Stoltz, fight, game, high school, house party, Jill Whitlow, Kelly Jo Minter, Laura Dern, Lawrence Monoson, mask, mask 1985, real rocky dennis, real rusty dennie, rocky and rusty dennis, rocky dennis, rocky rusty dennis, rusty dennis

Written by Anna Hamilton Phelan
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich

ALSO KNOWN AS

5 WORDS OR LESS
Based On A True Story.

GRADE
A. This is probably the most remarkable teen movie of the eighties.

NOSTALGIA
97%

WHEN TO WATCH
When you are feeling like you’re the ugliest m’fucker in the world. August, 8PM.

CHECKLIST
Bathroom
Bedroom
Best Friend
Cafeteria
Classroom
Fight
Game
High School
House Party

T & A
This film doesn’t need tits and ass. Did I really write that?

REASONS TO WATCH
1. Kelly Jo Minter. One of her finer performances.
2. Map tacking.
3. Bikers.
4. The carnival mirror scene.
5. Blind camp.
6. Rocky Dennis teaching a blind Diana how to feel colors. Now that’s romance.
7. Everyone in this movie is just aces.

CHOICE DIALOGUE
“Don’t worry. I look wierd but otherwise I’m real normal. Everything will be cool.”

TEEN MOVIE CONNECTIONS
Eric Stoltz Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The New Kids, Some Kind of Wonderful, Say Anything
Laura Dern Foxes, Smooth Talk
Lawrence Monoson The Last American Virgin
Alexandra Powers Silence of the Heart, Dead Poets Society
Kelly Jo Minter The Lost Boys
Jill Whitlow Porky’s, Weird Science
Christopher Rydell Under the Boardwalk
Barry Tubb The Legend of Billie Jean
Allison Roth For Keeps?

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TRAILER

SOUNDTRACK
Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
Badlands (Bruce Springsteen)
The River (Bruce Springsteen)
Born in the Usa (Bruce Springsteen)
The Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen)
Katmandu (Bob Seger)
Ripple (The Grateful Dead)
Little Egypt (Cher / Eric Stoltz)
Dedicated to the One I Love (The Shirelles)
Where Did the Naughty Little Girl Go
Quarter to Three (Gary U.S. Bonds)
Not Me (Gary U.S. Bonds)
Havin’ So Much Fun (Gary U.S. Bonds)
Dear Lady Twist (Gary U.S. Bonds)
Stumblin’ in (Suzi Quatro / Chris Norman)
Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
Dirty Work (Steely Dan)
Do It Again (Steely Dan)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
The Moog and Me (Dick Hyman)
Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard)
Tutti Frutti (Little Richard)
Can’t Believe You Wanna Leave (Little Richard)
Slippin’ ‘N Slidin’ (Little Richard)
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Girl (The Beatles)