Vision Quest | | Cast : | Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino | | Director : | Harold Becker | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound | | Released Date : | February 15, 1985 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Master OF The Rare LASERDISCS Movies. | Content
 | Vision Quest Starring Linda Fiorentino [ GOTCHA 1985 ] is a great Movie,I have it on LASER DISC ,A MUST SEE For Linda Fiorentino's FANS. :p
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| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | a winner | Content
| A well-made but typical 80's "you're the greatest"-type movie (as the soundtrack makes intrusively clear), about a high school boxer who is driven to take on a legendary champ.
There's something that's always bothered me about this movie: the lead actor, Matthew Modine, while charming, was totally miscast!
He doesn't look anything remotely like a wrestler, much less the size and caliber that would be required to best the hulking "Shoot" (himself superbly cast).
Not that Modine is a bad actor by any means, having delivered totally convincing performances in "Birdie" and "Full Metal Jacket."
But he is congentially spindly and undeveloped, it must be admitted. It's a constant distraction.
The movie is also notable for featuring an extended cameo by Madonna, just on the cusp of super-stardom.
This DVD's got jack for extras, by the way. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 20, 2005 | | Summary | Just a great feel good 80's movie!!! | Content
| Let me tell you 80's fans....this is deff. the best 80's feel good movie around. From Matthew Modine's training montages to the soundtrack, everything pumps you up in this movie. I don't like even like wrestling but Matthew Modine makes you wanna try out for a team! Matthew Modine is just a typical 18 year old high school student, young, ambitious, and confused. When he drops to a lower weight class level to beat "shoot" his team disowns him. That doesn't stop him though, he is sexually teased by Linda Fiorentino, disowned by his team and coach, and even challenged by his own health. Watching matthew Modine triumph all these challenges is worth every second in this all time classic movie....buy the movie and soundtrack.... |
| Rating | | | Date | January 29, 2005 | | Summary | Great adaptation | Content
| Louden Swain is an unlikely figure to carry a film. He's a wrestling-obsessed high school jock but rather than being super-tough or heroic he's rather unsure of himself and something of an intellectual.
I first read "Vision Quest" as a teenager and only realised it was a movie comparatively recently. If you can get over the fact he's too old for the part, Matthew Modine gives a convincing performance as the central character as he considers his upcoming match with the state champion and encounters a few life-lessons about love along the way.
As a whole the film is a lot softer than the book, although I enjoyed the wrestling room scenes, which were credibly depicted. Louden's relationship with his mother, who suffers from cancer in the book but refuses treatment, is absent entirely here and Linda Fiorentino is a lot more together than her flaky counterpart on the page.
Modine went on to a glittering screen career after "Vision Quest". Sadly Frank Jasper, who I liked as his hard-nut opponent Shute, doesn't seem to have had the same success.
Overall, readers of the book, wrestlers, high school movie fans and people interested in the early career of Madonna won't be disappointed by this adaptation but I'm not sure it has universal appeal. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 22, 2004 | | Summary | "You ever hear of Pele?" | Content
| There are a lot of reasons to love this movie - It's a great coming of age tale, a solid 80's high school film - and all the reasons that other reviewers have already shared... but it stands out, in my opinion, for providing the most elegant argument for why we as a society love sports and athletes Towards the end of the movie one of the charachters gives a little pep talk about watching Pele play soccer... "and I tell you I started crying... yeah that's right I started cryin..." |
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