This film revolves around Max (Spader) a business executive in his late 20s (27, to be precise) who still hasn’t recovered from the death of his wife when he meets Nora (Sarandon), and the two begin a relationship. White Palacedirected by Luis Mandoki, 1990 I may do a feature post on this movie one day, once I get a nice copy to screencap! In fact, Spader is in a fair few ridiculous films where the cast (often equally fantastic acting talents) just embraces it ( Wolf with Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Plummer is one that comes immediately to mind). It gets ridiculous fairly quickly – that club scene that turns into Kim Richards dancing at not only Spader but everyone in the club, for one – but I can handle ridiculous if the cast members just go with it. It didn’t hurt that RDJ played his BFF and that Kim Richards, playing his love-interest (she hates him at first, of course) had the longest hair I’ve seen in a non-fantasy film possibly ever. I guess I was wrong because this delightfully trashy film with Spader as Morgan, a ‘troubled teenager’ who has moved from Connecticut to LA with his parents, completely got me. I thought I’d got to a point in my life where I just didn’t care for stories about rich (in this case, ex-rich) white boys getting themselves in trouble. Tuff Turf directed by Fritz Kiersch, 1985 And so I have been obsessively seeking out any film that he has been in, no matter how bizarre or plain awful it may be (or how little screen time he gets). You know how there are actors or directors one may proclaim to love then realise you’ve only seen a very small number of their films? Well, I guess Spader was one of those for me. When I, er, procured Tuff Turf I remembered I’d once wanted to go through Spader’s filmography, too. Then I thought I may as well watch a few of his earlier films I hadn’t seen yet…and this is where we get to Spader. After at least a thousand notes of ‘OMG He looks so young!!!11!1’ I decided to systematically go through each film credit listed on IMDB (I eventually found it – it was One Night Stand). It was uncredited and my curious nature won out and I decided I had to know what film it was from. Strangely enough, it started when a friend reblogged a gif-set of Robert Downey Jr looking wide-eyed and beautiful, as usual, on Tumblr. The latest obsession of that kind, for me, is James Spader. Take a trip back to the teenage years with the 28 best teen movies of all time.Every now and then I get the urge to seek out every single film that a particular actor has been in, in the space of a short time. Here, we've collected some of the greatest high school movies ever made, from goofy sex comedies to poignant dramas. So if you're looking to take a trip down memory lane, into the youthful world of high school happenings and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager, we've got just the list for you. As we adults know, those moments do end, and-for better or for worse-we're stuck with the memories.īut sometimes a good teen story can give us some perspective that we might lose in the course of growing up. The teenage years are infamous for their ups and downs, highs and lows, first loves, first heartbreaks, bodily rollercoasters, and moments so deeply felt that you feel like they'll last forever. We can all rally for the success of a kid in a coming-of-age tale, because (as much as we might like to forget it) we've all been there. If you think about it, many of the most famous American television shows and films in the last half-century, regardless of genre, have teenagers at the center of their stories: Back to the Future, Donnie Darko, Scream, Karate Kid, Grease. A teenage protagonist is an ideal one, because they're easy to root for.
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