Thursday, March 04, 2004
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RACING WITH THE MOON
A couple of days ago, co-worker Colleen and I were talking about the Academy Awards and last night she loaned me a video of "Racing with the Moon," a 1984 movie with Sean Penn and Nicolas (there really is no h in it) Cage. They had also been in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" a couple of years earlier. Penn was the star in both though as the future would show, Cage would become very much a star in his own right and win a Best Actor Oscar ("Leaving Las Vegas") 8 years sooner than Penn.
It's not a great film and I wouldn't suggest anyone spend his/her time or money when there are many more worthy diversions. And if Colleen hadn't imposed it on me, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to find it. But it was interesting to see Penn and Cage 20 years younger and as a slice-of-life drama, it is entertaining, set in a small town as the story of two soon-to-be Marines, living it up for 4 weeks prior to heading off to World War II.
And watching the news of our soldiers in Iraq, I realize it a story that is not so long ago and not so far away.
A couple of days ago, co-worker Colleen and I were talking about the Academy Awards and last night she loaned me a video of "Racing with the Moon," a 1984 movie with Sean Penn and Nicolas (there really is no h in it) Cage. They had also been in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" a couple of years earlier. Penn was the star in both though as the future would show, Cage would become very much a star in his own right and win a Best Actor Oscar ("Leaving Las Vegas") 8 years sooner than Penn.
It's not a great film and I wouldn't suggest anyone spend his/her time or money when there are many more worthy diversions. And if Colleen hadn't imposed it on me, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to find it. But it was interesting to see Penn and Cage 20 years younger and as a slice-of-life drama, it is entertaining, set in a small town as the story of two soon-to-be Marines, living it up for 4 weeks prior to heading off to World War II.
And watching the news of our soldiers in Iraq, I realize it a story that is not so long ago and not so far away.
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