Keep track of the broadcast, cable, and streaming shows you love with our rundown of all this season's renewals, cancellations, and more.
Want to help choose the next great Amazon Original comedy series? Stream and review now during Amazon Pilot Season.
Join us on "Style Code Live" daily to connect, shop and chat live with fashion designers, beauty experts and celebrities! Discover today's best beauty hacks and the top style secrets!
Related lists from IMDb users
Title: Vision Quest (1985)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Matthew Modine | ... | ||
| Linda Fiorentino | ... |
Carla
|
|
| Michael Schoeffling | ... |
Kuch
|
|
| Ronny Cox | ... |
Louden's Dad
|
|
| Harold Sylvester | ... |
Tanneran
|
|
| Charles Hallahan | ... |
Coach
|
|
 |
J.C. Quinn | ... |
Elmo
(as J. C. Quinn)
|
| Daphne Zuniga | ... |
Margie Epstein
|
|
| R.H. Thomson | ... |
Kevin
(as R. H. Thomson)
|
|
| Gary Kasper | ... |
Otto
|
|
| Raphael Sbarge | ... |
Schmoozler
|
|
| Forest Whitaker | ... |
Balldozer
|
|
|
|
Frank Jasper | ... |
Shute
|
| Roberts Blossom | ... | ||
| James Gammon | ... |
Kuch's Dad
|
|
Vision Quest is a coming of age movie in which high school wrestler Louden Swain decides he wants to be something more than an average high school athlete and sets his sights on a prize that many don't think he can win - he then sets out to reach his goal alone, without much support from his father or coach. His father rents a room to a young drifter, Carla. Swain falls in love with her and she helps him stay focused and prevents him from losing sight of his goals. Written by Lynanne Fowle <lynanne@thefowles.com>
Its not hard to understand why some viewers would dislike this movie, since less than .1% of the worlds population ever wrestled in a competitive environment.
But, for those that have, and for the friends and parents of those wrestlers, this movie is a solid 9/10 rating. The movie hits on every aspect of this sports tortuous rigor: losing weight every week, not eating, training, and the mental gymnastics involved with having to believe that you can beat anyone at anytime.
And most realistically, this movie also shows the hardships of doing what every other high school kid does, in combination with the rigors of the sport. They have love relationships, they have classmates, they have to deal with the teachers and coaches, as well as their own family, plus they have to deal with their own teammates each week who may want to take over the top position at their weight.
As one who had over 100 high school matches (15 years before the making of this movie), I can confirm that there is no better movie than this about high school wrestling. When you rate this movie you should not think about how good it is among all other movies, rather you should rate it solely based on its ability to achieve the objective of accurately portraying its subject.
I guess that some would think Louden is not a "team player", but wrestling is an individual sport, no matter how others would want to portray it (although if you win your team gets points). Now that this diatribe (which it might be to some) is about over, I will summarize as follows: Do not watch the movie if you don't care about seeing an exceptionally good story about high school wrestling, you won't like it!