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 | Johnny Be Good (1987) |
| Summary | A high school football star is aggressively courted by colleges. |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Direction | Bud Smith |
| Downey Factor | Medium. Anthony Michael Hall is the star of this one. |
| Character | Leo Wiggins, sidekick to Anthony Michael Hall's star football player. |
| Looks | Not bad, but not outstanding. |
| Performance | Comedic, but a bit ... off-beat. |
| Dies, Gay or Villain | No, no, no. |
| Other Actors | Anthony Michael Hall, Uma Thurman, Robert Downey Sr. |
| Connection | Anthony Michael Hall in Hail Caesar and Weird Science. Robert Downey Sr.'s Hugo Pool, Pound, Up the Academy, Rented Lips, America, Too Much Sun,Greaser's Palace, in The Last Party. |
| RDJ Says | [The critics] hated me in Johhny Be Good. The Los Angeles Times crucified me. They said I sounded like Pee-wee Herman emerging from a coma. |
| Release | March 1988 |
| Availability | Video is out of print, but available to rent. Available on DVD in Region 1 and 2. |
| Foreign Titles | Brazil: Johnny Bom de Transa (Johnny Does It Well) Denmark: Johnny Walker og Damerne (Johnny Walker and the Ladies) Italy: La Grande Promessa (The Great Promise) Spain: Johnny Superstar |
| Rotten Tomatoes | 0% Fresh | 7 Reviews |
| Critical View | Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The people who made this movie should be ashamed of themselves. There are a lot of good screenplays to be filmed and only a limited amount of money to go around. Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Many things happen in Hollywood that can't be explained by normal, right-thinking people. But this movie is so crass, so vulgar, so relentlessly brain-dead that, watching it, you think your imagination is beginning to play tricks on you. Robert Downey Jr. couldn't have threatened to blow his brains out with a rubber dart gun, could he? It had to have been a hallucination. |
| 2 Reasons to See It | 1. You're an aspiring screenwriter who needs assurance that any terrible script might get shot. 2. A rare event: Anthony Michael Hall plays a cool guy. |
| Overall | Dull and stupid, but maybe you'll like it if you're into the Downey/Hall team. |
| If You Liked It | You might also like Weird Science (1985), Hail Caesar (1993), grain alcohol. |
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