The Beat

1988

Action / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 235 235

high school new york city poetry gang

Plot summary

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

Director

Paul Mones Photo
Paul Mones

Top cast

Pete Antico Photo
Pete Antico as Mr. Paginini
Reggie Rock Bythewood Photo
Reggie Rock Bythewood as Danny Lambeaux
Jack McGee Photo
Jack McGee as Mr. Frock
Stuart Alexander Photo
Stuart Alexander as Doug
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934.3 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
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1.69 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by oscar-nawel

Was it really that bad?

Along with the other comment here, I've heard another bad comment on this movie -from a member of the rock band featured in the film. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion.My problem is that I have a more or less good memory of that movie. I mean, I remember that I was very interested in it, I thought it was a good movie and spend years trying to find out some more about it.Well, I was a kid when I saw it and that may have something to do with my positive evaluation of the film. Plus, the Cro Mags played there and that is definitively a plus! Anyway, I wouldn't go so far as to recommend it, but if you find it some late night in some cable station, give it a try. I want to see it again myself and see if I'm so wrong.
Reviewed by Jtalledo 5 / 10

Proof that any nimrod can write bad poetry

Yet another tale of people's lives being changed by an unlikely hero. In this one, token ironic hero Rex is a new student in a New York City high school who doesn't fit in but has a penchant for poetry. After being the victim of a violent society that is unwilling to accept the different and in his case, the mentally challenged, he somehow manages to build his own little following of friends all of whom he changes the perceptions of. He makes them buy into some type of quasi-Religion that he invents and talks in verse that only melodramatic beatniks could appreciate. For some reason, his friends, who are in a constant struggle with adults and questions of adulthood, actually begin to understand what he's talking about and become better people for it.While you can't really fault the movie for using the same tried and true formula that later made Forrest Gump successful, half the move you spend trying to figure out exactly what the heck Rex is saying. Just as with all poetry, his words are open to interpretation and the fact all his work seems ripped straight out of a bad mad lib book doesn't help any. A boring plot line that doesn't go anywhere and an extremely anti-climactic, predictable ending don't do anything to peak interest. Besides Rex's incessant ramblings, most of the characters can't seem to express themselves without throwing an expletive in their sentences here, there and everywhere. Also look out for punk teenager stereotypes and an odd lack of ethnic diversity in a strange New York as anomalies.All in all, the Beat is under dramatic, predictably sympathetic work that won't do anyone any harm. Good to show on tape to an English class, if only to show students how poetry is not done.
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