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...Breakfast Club) are pretty acutely attuned to the exposed nerve ends of ordinary kids. Nice kids like Andie, a middle-class high school senior who plays nurse to her sad-sack dad (Harry Dean Stanton), puts up with the suffocating devotion of a funny dork named Duckie (Jon Cryer) and moons over Blane, a wealthy classmate (Andrew McCarthy) who maybe loves her back...
...PHILOSOPHER with a viewfinder, Charles Cummings (Jon Cryer) snaps shots of everything from foreign freighters to flies on his school desk. "I once asked my mom where babies come from," he says, in a Risky Business-style internal monologue. "She told me one of the strangest stories I'd ever heard. It turned out to be true." With enough cheekiness to make him a funnier and more openly rebellious Joel Goodsen, No Small Affair could, indeed, be a funnier Risky Business: the tale of a camera, a boy, and his loss of innocence. Instead, the film becomes so clumsy that...
...time stand-in for Mathew Brodcrick on Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoris, Jon Cryer does his best comic work alone. "I once heard it said that if y ou stand in one place long enough, the world will pass you by. It's not true." "Have a girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor...
...Cryer could probably carry No Small Affair nonetheless, but he gets none of the cinematic support that made the management case study of an aspiring businessman in "human satisfaction" into a success in Risky Business. Where that film, for instance, used exaggerated shots to distort Joel's parents visually, matching their distortion in the mind of the aspiring pimp, here Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond displays none of the visual creativity he and steven Spiclberg brought to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is as if he simply ran the production like a Broadway show...
...time. One Hewlett-Packard financial calculator ($110) comes with an operating booklet that runs to 246 pages of small type. The company supplements that with a 170-page training guide that sells for $15. "People have said we should do something like this for all our manuals," observes Janet Cryer, who wrote the guide...