Review

by Chris L

Classic teen movie

Five teenagers are assigned detention on a Saturday morning and afternoon. During the course of the detention (and with a little help from marijuana) they open up and talk and begin to know each other. The cast: Estevez is just great as the jock. He gives a very believable and moving performance especially in a speech about his father. Nelson, however, is horrible as the hood. He looks the part but he's way too eloquent and his acting was pretty bad. Ringwald and Hall are perfect in their roles, but they WERE teenagers when this was filmed. Sheedy does what she can with a criminally underwritten role. John Kapelos (as a janitor) is hardly in it and Paul Gleason given a very 1 dimensional role as the evil adult. He does what he can with it. The movie isn't perfect--parents are the root of all the kids problems; there are annoying lapses in logic but still a truly great teenage movie. A de