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Mischief (1985)
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Movie Review by Zara 
December 7th, 2008
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There are a lot of strange factors going on with this movie. The most that I could remember of it when we watched it today was that it included a nude scene with a young Kelly Preston. Yes, back in the '80's when you even got to see bush as a part of your R rating.
The first oddity with the movie is that it's set in 1956 but head-scratchingly progressive, with the high school being integrated in a small no-name town, a black sheriff who pulls over the delinquents and a black gas station owner. (Or one assumes he at the very least is in charge of running the place.) That integration in a comedy smacks of the blissfully ignorant era of the 1980's, when they were trying to recreate scenes from a long time passed, but didn't want to politically offend anyone.
At the same time, the movie also includes language (whether foul or slang related) which is more slanted toward the era it was made IN and not ABOUT. The blatant homosexual undertones are oddly jarring at times as well, when you know that had the movie been made in the 1950's, it would have been made with innocence, but knowing that it was the 80's, there's the wink-wink, nudge-nudge factor.
This movie is a weird time warp. It's something like watching CRYBABY and knowing that John Waters put modern day themes into a movie about those in the 50's, except with MISCHIEF, I don't believe that was their intention. So they infused a movie about teenagers from another time with the connotations of the modern time it was made in. Which for me, someone who grew up partially in that time, is fun to look back on, but for all the reasons that the filmmakers probably don't want you to.
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 | Tim
Dec 13, 2008 5:20 PM
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When I saw that you had reviewed this film I could have sworn that I had written the "other" review.... but it wasnt me so that confused me really bad because I good have sworn I wrote a review on this film.
Brandon and I watched this at the beach when we were on a trip with my dad one year....which was years ago. We thought it was really funny and I enjoy it everytime I watch it. |
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