Vision Quest

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Summary: Just a great feel good 80's movie!!!
Review: Let me tell you 80's fans....this is deff. the best 80's feel good movie around. From Matthew Modine's training montages to the soundtrack, everything pumps you up in this movie. I don't like even like wrestling but Matthew Modine makes you wanna try out for a team! Matthew Modine is just a typical 18 year old high school student, young, ambitious, and confused. When he drops to a lower weight class level to beat "shoot" his team disowns him. That doesn't stop him though, he is sexually teased by Linda Fiorentino, disowned by his team and coach, and even challenged by his own health. Watching matthew Modine triumph all these challenges is worth every second in this all time classic movie....buy the movie and soundtrack....

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Summary: Great adaptation
Review: Louden Swain is an unlikely figure to carry a film. He's a wrestling-obsessed high school jock but rather than being super-tough or heroic he's rather unsure of himself and something of an intellectual.

I first read "Vision Quest" as a teenager and only realised it was a movie comparatively recently. If you can get over the fact he's too old for the part, Matthew Modine gives a convincing performance as the central character as he considers his upcoming match with the state champion and encounters a few life-lessons about love along the way.

As a whole the film is a lot softer than the book, although I enjoyed the wrestling room scenes, which were credibly depicted. Louden's relationship with his mother, who suffers from cancer in the book but refuses treatment, is absent entirely here and Linda Fiorentino is a lot more together than her flaky counterpart on the page.

Modine went on to a glittering screen career after "Vision Quest". Sadly Frank Jasper, who I liked as his hard-nut opponent Shute, doesn't seem to have had the same success.

Overall, readers of the book, wrestlers, high school movie fans and people interested in the early career of Madonna won't be disappointed by this adaptation but I'm not sure it has universal appeal.

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Summary: "You ever hear of Pele?"
Review: There are a lot of reasons to love this movie - It's a great coming of age tale, a solid 80's high school film - and all the reasons that other reviewers have already shared... but it stands out, in my opinion, for providing the most elegant argument for why we as a society love sports and athletes Towards the end of the movie one of the charachters gives a little pep talk about watching Pele play soccer... "and I tell you I started crying... yeah that's right I started cryin..."

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Summary: DVD version is much better than VHS
Review: I have looked at some of the reviews on the suggested
bad quality of the picture of the DVD version, but I
feel this current full-screen DVD version of Vision
Quest is still very good and a heck of a lot better than my
VHS store bought version. Yes, a wide-screen and special
edition DVD packed with features and with some restoration
of the original film would be great, but this DVD version
will do until then. Also, for those people who do want
a choice of having the full-screen format you may want to
buy this DVD now because if Vision Quest is ever released
in a new special edition it may be released in wide-screen
only format so this full-screen version may be hard to get
at some point in the future.

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Summary: Vision Quest dvd
Review: This is a feel good movie involving a sport about which I could not possibly care any less. But the character of Loudon Swain is such an appealing one that I am completely involved in his quest and cheering him in every frame. One of my watch again and again movies.

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Summary: Great movie for older teens
Review: This is a classic. Much better than the Rockie series. Great for the teen involved in sports. Check it out, it's worth it.