Spring Movies

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the squirrels are running mad once more. Canadians crave the warm weather after winter, and it does not matter if the winter was a good one or a long one, it was after all: Winter and cold.

The BBQ is being cleaned along with the house; we take more walks with the dog, without muttering and cursing only a foot outside the door. SPRING!

Movie night can now take on a new twist, we can gather lawn chairs, or sit in the hot tub, toss a white sheet on the fence, or if we are really well-heeled have an outdoor movie screen, while we swat at our real national animal, ‘the misquote.” {sorry beaver} and enjoy some great spring movies.

May I suggest…..

Where the Boys Are (1960) For a movie released when Americans only had missionary position sex while fully clothed on a mattress stuffed with Bibles, WTBA is surprisingly risqué and would lay the sexy groundwork for all subsequent Spring Break movies to follow. And as the clip makes clear: big-footed women need sexin' up, too.

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) Bradley Whitford – playing totally against type as a smug prick -- learns a painful lesson the Tri-Lams have known since the first movie: always bet on black.

Losin' It (1983) Like the moon, time is a harsh mistress, transforming an only-slightly creepy Jackie Earle Haley into the psychopathic Rorschach and a not-at-all creepy Tom Cruise into a dead-eyed Scientologist loon. Where is your Shelley Long now?

Spring Break (1983) One of the first in the storied 1980s-era wave of movies encouraging students to 'get your ass to Lauderdale' (to coin a phrase), this was produced by the same sinister hotel industry/beverage distributor cabal that gave us Hardbodies, Fraternity Vacation, and...uh, Motel Hell. I have no evidence for the previous statement.

The Sure Thing (1985) I know many teenagers who aspired to John Cusack's lofty standards of self-awareness and asceticism, and if those teenage boys were also confronted with a choice between the shrill, bookish Daphne Zuniga and the willing, pulchritudinous Nicollette Sheridan -- would have fallen far, far short.

As seen in the April Issue of Main Street Magazine

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