Stephen King Presents – Kingdom Hospital
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd
NR – 780 minutes
About the time I hit college, there were a few movies everyone in my crowd was watching again and again. For the guys, it was a little David Lynch gem called Blue Velvet, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper. Why I don’t know—maybe there was some adolescent male need to see a severed human ear—but inevitably the movie turned up when the guys got together. To quote the tagline: “It’s a strange world.”
For the girls, it was any of a number of Brat Pack specials by Joel Schumacher and John Hughes, including St. Elmo’s Fire and Pretty in Pink. Like Blue Velvet, these movies probably filled a different adolescent need, one that centered around the acceptance and security offered by the ideal teenage romance. We ended up watching St. Elmo’s Fire and Pretty in Pink a lot more than Blue Velvet; not because we liked these movies, but because we liked the girls and the girls categorically refused to watch David Lynch’s little weird-o-rama.
Dead On Arrival
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006Director: Craig R. Baxley
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd
NR – 780 minutes
About the time I hit college, there were a few movies everyone in my crowd was watching again and again. For the guys, it was a little David Lynch gem called Blue Velvet, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper. Why I don’t know—maybe there was some adolescent male need to see a severed human ear—but inevitably the movie turned up when the guys got together. To quote the tagline: “It’s a strange world.”
For the girls, it was any of a number of Brat Pack specials by Joel Schumacher and John Hughes, including St. Elmo’s Fire and Pretty in Pink. Like Blue Velvet, these movies probably filled a different adolescent need, one that centered around the acceptance and security offered by the ideal teenage romance. We ended up watching St. Elmo’s Fire and Pretty in Pink a lot more than Blue Velvet; not because we liked these movies, but because we liked the girls and the girls categorically refused to watch David Lynch’s little weird-o-rama.
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