This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. We're two days away from Christmas, so the theme is "Holiday Parties". My first thought was the Christmas party in Desk Set and Katharine Hepburn and her co-workers think they're about to be put out of their jobs by a computer, but I used that one, even if it was over three years ago. So I decided to go in a different direction with three movies from a little over 30 years ago:
About Last Night... (1986). Chicagoan Danny (Rob Lowe) meets Debbie (Demi Moore) and has a one-night stand with her before the two actually fall in love (or think they're falling in love) and move in together. However, each has a best friend (Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins) who tries to break up the relationship. Danny tries to win back Debbie at a bar's Christmas party.
Metropolitan (1990). Directed by Whit Stillman, this movie tells the story of a recent college graduate Tom (Edward Clements) who gets picked up by somebody in Manhattan's much higher social classes at Christmastime at the end of the 1970s, in a time when they still had debutante ball-type stuff. Eventually he realizes their circle isn't for him, although he changes everybody else along the way.
Less Than Zero (1987). Andrew McCarthy plays a rich kid from the Los Angeles area who goes east to college. When he returns home for Christmas his freshman year, he finds that one of his best friends (Robert Downey Jr.) has gotten himself hooked on cocaine, while his ex-girlfriend (Jamie Gertz) is trying to get Downey off of coke, all while they navigate the party scene. This is one of those great unintentional comedies, and fabulously stuck in the 1980s.
2 comments:
It's been a while since I saw About Last Night! May need to watch it again.
In classic fashion, I have not seen any of these but the ne with Rob Lowe and Robert Downey sounds good although that must have hit home for Downey.
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