There must have been favors owed or nepotism in the casting. The kid who played the lead looked like a holocaust survivor. He was hard to look at, people cast in films are generally good looking, that's how you attract people to the theater. The rest of the cast isn't much better.
I grew up in California in the mid-80s. It was absolutely nothing like its portrayed in this movie. People were mean and aggressive, especially the beach/surfer culture. Drugs were everywhere. This kid would have been chewed up. The way the kids act in this film, you can tell they are Millennials with sensitivity training.
This is the sort of movie that plays in the middle of the night on Cinemax, that's the legacy.
I grew up in California in the mid-80s. It was absolutely nothing like its portrayed in this movie. People were mean and aggressive, especially the beach/surfer culture. Drugs were everywhere. This kid would have been chewed up. The way the kids act in this film, you can tell they are Millennials with sensitivity training.
This is the sort of movie that plays in the middle of the night on Cinemax, that's the legacy.