Post-graduate soap opera: seven collegiate colleagues in their "freshman year of life." ("Four months after graduation," one of them impatiently fumes, "and you're still acting like every night's a frat party!") It's nice that the movie takes so impartial a view of its characters, and nice that it offers no permanent solutions to their problems. But a messy, ensemble manner does not disguise a tidy, empty mind. The blizzard of fast talk and flashy action includes stuff like one character dunking another's head in the men's-room toilet at their favorite tavern. Did the director, Joel Schumacher, ever think of putting himself in anyone else's shoes? On the one side (in this particular instance) there is the feasibility of so neatly wetting the hair, without cracking open the skull, of the unsuspecting and uncooperating victim; and on the other side there is the dual question of personal dignity and hygiene: "Oh, well, the wet look is 'in' anyway." Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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