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High school. Senior year. His suicide shattered their world. Their courage drove them to pick up the pieces.
High school. Senior year. His suicide shattered their world. Their co...
Drama
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1988
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David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and bandmate, Chris, with a lot of questions.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
22 Apr 1988
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$1,893,139
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Pic is populated by profoundly unrewarding characters doing and saying utterly uninteresting things.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
rotten:
A well-intentioned study of high-school kids coping (and not coping) with the pressures of adolescence, its naturalistic style only makes the more overt dramatic elements look forced and cliched.
– Tom Charity,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
The implacable earnestness laid on by the script, which it took three people to put together, is not relieved by the nonstop songs, from rock-and-roll to Gilbert and Sullivan.
– Walter Goodman,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
rotten:
A lot of talented people, ranging from Eraserhead's cinematographer (Frederick Elmes) to Choose Me's costume designer (Tracy Tynan), contributed to this muck.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
To describe the opening scenes makes them seem routine, and yet they captured my attention with an intensity that I still do not understand.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000