Johnny Be Good

1988

Action / Comedy / Sport

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 30%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 7954 8K

sports

Plot summary

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

Director

Bud S. Smith Photo
Bud S. Smith

Top cast

Marshall Bell Photo
Marshall Bell as Chief Elkans
Robert Downey Jr. Photo
Robert Downey Jr. as Leo Wiggins
Uma Thurman Photo
Uma Thurman as Georgia Elkans
Seymour Cassel Photo
Seymour Cassel as Wallace Gibson
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
710.18 MB
1280*700
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1
1.35 GB
1904*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dboyd-65362 5 / 10

Pretty much what I expected

Just a run of the mill 80's try hard comedy, a few funny scenes...nothing to get excited about (one and done)
Reviewed by photoe 4 / 10

Lots of problems here

This film has two main things going for it - nostalgia and the ability to fantasize about having Uma Thurmann as your girlfriend in 1988. There are many fantastic shots of her in all measure of garb, including a wonderful body-length pajamas. Lots of nice white tops and jeans. Phew and Rowrrrrr.....Anthony Michael Hall is an actor I decided I liked after all in his later career when he played Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley. He's got a measured confidence mixed with some menace underneath that all-american blonde facade. Despite what some might some might say about Hall's depth, he is about the only thing saving this movie from absolute disaster.I actually found Robert Downey Jr to be mostly insufferable in this film, and its very early for him, but he isn't given a lot to work with. He does have a few good lines, though.Structurally, this movie has a lot of problems. The plot is insanely thin, and it sort of purports to a certain amount of morality, but then it does not a lot to support that assumption. It lays out Hall's character compromise of his character in such an extreme, laughable manner, it's pretty hard to take it seriously. It's a movie that is sort of making fun of itself, or maybe the director and actors are mocking the script. It's got that feel of not being taken super seriously, something that happened quite a bit in the 80s and made for some charming fare, but also made for some not cogent films. The production values and soundtrack are good, however. The music is period, and well curated, but featuring lesser known tracks, not all well-known hits. I also always like seeing the uncluttered life of the 1980s, no cel phones, still a certain amount of neon, nice 1970s and 1980s cars, and the general party atmosphere of the time.As I said, however, the number one reason to watch this is for Uma Thurmann. The one realistic thing about this movie is that in real life, this guy probably would be stupid enough to lose Uma Thurmann. Of course in real life, he never would have been dating her in the first place.
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