Brat Pack America: Visiting Cult Movies of the '80s by Kevin SmoklerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a fun and educational, even at time insightful, look at 80s movies. The "America" and "Visiting" in the title comes from the ostensible theme of actual film locations. Except for lengthy discourses on Mystic, Connecticut; Astoria, Oregon (The Goonies); and Santa Cruz (The Lost Boys), actual sites are often unrelated to the film for uninteresting reasons divulged here. What makes the book worth reading is Smokler's joy and a fan of the period genre and his synopses and reviews of each film.
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