Playing For Keeps

A Charming Flick Despite The Fluff
You've just graduated from your inner-city New York high school and the future looks bleak. What do you do? You open up a rock n' roll hotel, that's what!

Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn and Leon W. Grant are three streetwise teens who find adult life to be a bit tough. After visiting an employment office, the athletic Spikes (Penn) is offered a bicycle delivery job. The always dancing Silk (Grant) is given the chance to work his moves as a janitor. Meanwhile their daydreaming (and always positive) best pal, Danny (Jordano), has just quit his job and finds out that one of his deceased relatives has left a dilapidated hotel in the country with $8,000 in taxes to his mother.

After a hokey money-raising scheme proves successful, Danny and his friends pay off the taxes and decide to renovate the clunker into a rock n' roll resort. Unfortunately for them, one of the town's leaders has plans of his own for the hotel. He uses smalltown politics and good...

FAR FETCHED story, told a million times in the 80's
This is a generic, and far-fetched story, which is very similar to most other 80's films--Kids trying to save a community center, school, in this case a hotel from evil Real estate developers!!

Why was this story told so many times in the 80's?

"Breakin", "Beat Street", etc.

FAR FETCHED!!!

The only saving grace of the film is some of the music--Phil Collin's "We said hello goodbye" is a classic, and Marisa Tomei is absolutely ADORABLE.

she's a cutie
You know why you are considering this movie. So does Universal; look at the dvd cover. She wears bright lipstick; big, plastic jewelry; ridiculous clothes; cute bows and ribbons in her hair--all pink and 80s. All too cute. But she does not get much screen time. The main characters are three male friends. And other than Marisa, this movie is terrible.

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