Joel Schumacher’s vampire romp endures for its wonderfully grown-up treatment of being youngThis sprightly and satirical 80s spin on Jm Barrie’s “lost boys” from director Joel Schumacher is now rereleased in UK cinemas.
Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam was reportedly drafted in to sex’n’goth up a story that was originally much more innocently Peter Pan-ish, and yet this version probably has more to say about the concept of staying for ever young.The film is certainly an amazing time capsule for the 80s and arguably one of the great 80s kids-heroism movies, to put alongside Et: The Extra Terrestrial and The Goonies.
Teenager Michael (Jason Patric) and his kid brother, Sam (Corey Haim), are arriving in a new town – the fictional Californian coastal resort of Santa Carla – with their mother, Lucy (Dianne Wiest), following her divorce, staying with their crusty old grandpa (Barnard Hughes).
On the boardwalk,
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