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When Betsy (brat-pack actress Molly Ringwald) announces her marriage plans, Hopper decides he is going to throw the biggest, most amazing wedding the whole damned world has ever seen. His decision is cemented when his pride is wounded by his in-laws-to-be. Betsy's fiance Jake comes from a wealthy family from the East Side of Manhattan. His family is in investment banking--they buy and sell companies, Betsy explains to her chubby Italian aunt--and offer to pay for the whole soiree in high style. ("At the Plaza Hotel, maybe?" they suggest.) Hopper, at the suggestion...
...special effects are superb. When the Ghostdad haunts the neighborhood brat he proves that an avenging angel still can have a good laugh. And the trip to the doctor's office shows some remarkable creativity without relying too heavily on computer animation and other techniques...
Last year James Spader made his first large claim on public approval with his portrayal of a delicately nuanced weirdo in sex, lies, and videotape. Around the same time, sometime brat-packer Rob Lowe made his first large claim on public opprobrium when it was revealed that he had staged a somewhat less formal drama -- more of an improv, really -- involving sex, lies and videotape in an Atlanta hotel room during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Now the two young actors are co-starring in something called Bad Influence, and guess what familiar items feature in its plot...
What does he have that separates him from the Brat Pack? He's not as lovely as Rob Lowe. He doesn't explode, on- or off-camera, as ripely as Sean Penn. "Tom is at a disadvantage," says Barry Levinson, his Rain Man director. "He's got a pretty face, so his abilities are underestimated. And he's not working a rebel image, which is associated with being a good actor." But he does have the image, in the films that made him famous, of an intense young man with a mission: the total workhorse, the ultimate party animal...
Three survivors carry the burden of Atkinson's narrative. Tom Carhart is a gung-ho lieutenant whose career is derailed by accidents and disfigured by a war he can neither take nor leave. Jack Wheeler is an idealistic Army brat who loses his military faith in the trenches. Postwar, both men have turbulent domestic lives; both resign their commissions, as do nearly 25% of their class. Both are obsessed by the idea of a Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into...