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Lucas

1986

David Seltzer

Corey Haim, Winona Ryder, Charlie Sheen, Kerri Green ...

5.5

909

Comedy. Drama Lucas Blye is an intelligent and nerdy 14-year-old high school student. He becomes acquainted with Maggie, an attractive older girl who has just moved to town. After meeting Lucas on one of his entomological quests, Maggie befriends him, spending time with him during the remainder of the summer until school begins. Lucas, who finds himself a frequent victim of bullying and teasing, has a protector of sorts, Cappie Roew, an older student and football player. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"[It] is as irresistible as its slight, brilliant, bespectacled 14-year-old hero (...) Seltzer has at last moved us and made us laugh with his young people in their coping with everyday life."	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"As it moves amusingly along (...) it comes as a disappointment when Mr. Seltzer winds it all up by switching from a comedy of character to a fable"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a movie that is as pure and true to the adolescent experience as Truffaut's 'The 400 Blows.' It is true because it assumes all of its characters are intelligent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"[It] is about as likable as this kind of movie ever gets. At the heart of 'Lucas' is an interesting idea -- a Woody Allen movie for kids, with a bespectacled, nerdy hero -- that never gets developed."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"More subdued and much more honest that any of John Hughes' egregious forays into adolescence, the film's only drawback is an artificially upbeat ending."	POS

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