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Chris Columbus (writer)
Release Date:
3 February 1984 (USA)
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Girls like Tracy never tell their parents about guys like Rourke.
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Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family...
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Sizzling!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Aidan Quinn | ... | Johnny Rourke | |
| Daryl Hannah | ... | Tracey Prescott | |
| Kenneth McMillan | ... | John Rourke Sr | |
| Cliff De Young | ... | Phil Barton | |
| Lois Smith | ... | Mrs. Prescott | |
| Adam Baldwin | ... | Randy Daniels | |
| Dan Hedaya | ... | Peter Daniels | |
| Billy Jayne | ... | David Prescott (as Billy Jacoby) | |
| Toni Kalem | ... | Donna | |
| Jennifer Grey | ... | Cathy Bennario | |
| Haviland Morris | ... | Mary Pat Sykes | |
| Pamela Springsteen | ... | Karen Sybern | |
| Susan Kingsley | ... | Eileen | |
| Adam LeFevre | ... | Officer Haskell | |
| Ellen Mirojnick | ... | Physics Teacher |
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90 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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In one scene we see that Tracy has a Jackson Browne poster in her room - Daryl Hannah was dating Browne at the time.
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Cathy Benario:
Forget it! I'm not that drunk... well, not yet!
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Referenced in Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1997)
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UNDERSTANDING GRAVITY
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It's hard not to feel nostalgic when I think of Reckless. I saw it way back when and watched and liked it, despite knowing this premise has been done a million times before and that there wasn't one iota of originality in the movie. In spite of that-this movie is simply fun sizzling mind candy-it's as fun as one lets it be-it must have made an impression on me because I still remember it all these years later.
How could the combo of Aiden Quinn and Daryl Hannah go wrong anyway? Sometimes,a movie, despite not being original just works. And Reckless just worked.
This is not a movie in the same vane as "The breakfast club",or "some kind of wonderful", two of my favorite "high quality" teen movies (though the music's every bit as good). It's also not an obnoxious though FANTASTIC comedy like 'Clerks". What we have here is the standard bad boy meets uppity cheeleader and tames her. It's a bit more sizzling then you might expect it to be, racy without ever getting into trashy.It's not my favorite "bad boy/good girl/sizzle movie" (for lack of a better genre term!) That honor goes to "Two moon junction". But it's still a very watchable movie.
I consider this to be a movie that maybe wasn't great but was perfect for that time period and one that I want to (and plan) to see again for nostalgia purposes. I'd give it no points for originality but an 8 for casting and the sizzle factor and ten for the music.