love this movie even better on the big screen

For my 16 year old daughter that absolutely LOVES the 80's & thinks I grew up in the best time ever, it was the best surprise gift I could give her to see this favorite on the big screen. Her words exactly were "I'm getting to live as close as I can to my best 80s life right now!!!". This was an absolute mom win for me!!! Plus the fact that this was my 1st PG13 movie groing up....I loved reliving my youth too. Thank You for bring this to the theaters!!!!!

If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment. [14 Sept 1987]

A shapely film, considered and concise. And if its rhetorical slickness eventually covers up its emotional core, that slickness has a pleasure all its own. [21 August 1987]

Dave Kehr

Chicago Tribune

Before the movie collapses into the utopian nonsense that seems obligatory to this subgenre, a surprising amount of sensitivity and satirical insight emerges from Eleanor Bergstein's script and Emile Ardolino's direction.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader