Everyone knows that they need someone, and this is a film that attempts to chronicle the process of finding someone for several twenty-somethings in Seattle during the nineties.
Janet (Bridget Fonda) just wants someone to say gesundheit when she sneezes, but on-and-off-again boyfriend Cliff (Matt Dillon) is more concerned about his band than Janet (Cliff also serves as something of a narrator).
Back when Drew Barrymore was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life, she made this movie about being a bad girl – only she wasn’t that bad. She did it mostly with mental games, and though there is a certain sexual overtone to the movie, there’s actually very little sex in it. Perhaps that means she was over her bad girl phase, since she hit at such a young age.
Or perhaps she was just in need of a paycheck, so she took the opportunity to jump at whatever came along. After all, this was probably the best of all the Poison Ivy movies that were made, so it’s certainly good that she picked the first, rather than one of the others, but you can’t really give her credit for thinking ahead, when there was no guarantee that they would have ever made another one, so who knows?
If you’ve ever been to a store that sells audio and video gear, you’ve likely seen at least the introduction to this movie, mostly because the planes moving around the carrier deck make for one heck of an audio experience if you have the right equipment for it. If you don’t, then just settle back for a couple hours of bubblegum fluff. And Tom Cruise in his undies.
Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a navy fighter pilot who flies by the seat of his pants, and while he is always one step from getting thrown out of the navy, has just managed to land a shot at Top Gun, the school where the best 1% of all fighter pilots go to compete in aerial combat training.
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