Tom Cruise, Lea Thompson, Craig Nelson, and Chris Penn are in the 1983 movie All the Right Moves. Michael Chapman is in charge of the movie about coming of age. It’s about young boys and girls who play football to try to get a scholarship. Continue reading All the Right Moves Movie Review And Summary to learn more about the film.
Summary
Michael Chapman (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) is in charge of directing “All the Right Moves,” which stars Tom Cruise (The Outsiders, Risky Business), Craig T. Nelson, and Lea Thompson as a kid from a small town in western Pennsylvania who wants to get a football scholarship. A steel business controls the city, and it’s boring, but Cruise’s girlfriend, young Lea Thompson, makes things interesting. The spacemov movie shows how Cruise has to deal with the stress of a big football game and the difficulty of trying to get into a good school while living in a town that seems stuck in its own ways that he may think are beneath him. Gotta be honest, and the article will explain why.
Review: Discussion
“All the Right Moves” remembers how strong those feelings were, but it doesn’t make them too sweet. In the movie, “Risky Business,” star Tom Cruise plays a high school football player who lives in a small Pennsylvania mill town where unemployment is a way of life. A sports scholarship to a good engineering school is his ticket out of town. Craig T. Nelson, the high school football coach, is also looking for a pass to a job as an assistant coach at a college. These two people have destroyed each other’s dreams on the night of the big game.
This struggle is set against an interesting setting in the movie. This isn’t just another high school movie with dancing girls, funny leaders, and strange chemistry teachers. The movie shows how high school students interact with each other and how sensitive and difficult the relationship is between Tom Cruise’s character and Lea Thompson’s character, who plays his girlfriend. After all the bad high school movies where kids beat each other up, try to charm the French teacher, and go to whorehouses in Mexico, it’s so nice to see a movie that remembers that most teens are sensitive, uncertain, honest, and good. We can tell that the kid, his girlfriend, and their friends have real feelings.
The Story
The story also seems real because it’s about these kinds of terrible mistakes. And things we all remember doing wrong in high school. A lot of kids feel bad all day, even when they haven’t done anything wrong. Put them in a position where they look guilty, and they’ll be in trouble.
And it is so easy to get in trouble when you are old enough to do wrong but not old enough to move on your own to escape it. Many kids who say they were just along for the ride are telling the simple truth. The movie puts Cruise’s character in a similar position, one that we can relate to. And then it does something interesting. It doesn’t solve the problem with a story trick. Instead, two people finally tell each other the truth, which is a more honest way to solve the problem. This is a big step forward for movies about teens, and “All the Right Moves” gets the credit.
Final Word
All the Right Moves is “another love story set in high school.” It is that, but it’s not just another one. It’s unique because it shows how these talented young people feel pressured and driven to move on and make a better life for themselves by doing something they love and are good at. Stef can do things that most people can’t, so it would be terrible if he didn’t get the chance to show what he can do.