“An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.” Quoted from IMDb — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090829/
That’s it. That’s what the movie is all about. Except they aren’t pickpockets.
Some observations.
There is great footage of New York in the 80’s.
Our hero, Eric Roberts, not to be confused with the actor, lives the TV perfect life in Pennsylvania. He wants to go see his favorite band, The Raybops, (If you’re looking for a band name, please take note.) His step father insists he stay home to babysit his toddler stepbrother. Of course Eric sneaks out to see the concert. At the concert the band is announced, all the kids jump up and scream . . . Cut. We never get to hear the band. I really wanted to hear The Raybops.
There is another young man, who’s house burns down, forcing him and his family to stay in a welfare hotel. He also joins the gang of juvenile delinquents. During one of his scenes, he comes home after a successful day of delivering cocaine packets around 1980’s New York. As he’s getting into bed, a giant roach, American Cockroach, is seen descending the wall behind his bed. That is realism. Did the director plan that and place the roach on the wall, or was that a happy accident?
One of the juvenile delinquent kids wears a belt around his head.
It is Courtney Gains’ first role, confirmed by my extensive Wikipedia research. He was in it for not more than thirty seconds, and his face was barely visible. I jumped up and said, “Wait! It’s that guy! In all the movies!”
It is a made for TV movie. I didn’t know that, until I began my research for this article.
Final analysis: amazingly entertaining bad movie.
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