Sun, Apr 5, 1981
A high-schooler (Judge Reinhold) becomes good friends with a shy new classmate (Jeanne Mori) who has just come with her family from Vietnam. Through their tightly-knit friendship, she opens up, and he realizes the struggles that she and her family face as they adapt to American culture. Inspired by her story but blinded by what only the two of them understand on a humanitarian level, he writes an acoustic-guitar song he titles "A Step Too Slow." Inspired by true compassion and the circumstances of being an outcast and the pressures of high school, he pulls off the most incredible emotional and lyrically-epic performance in front of the class that opens their blind eyes, and gives them a gift as well with a voice of freedom and expression to his new friend. The silence of the class is eventually broken by another classmate who initiates a sing-along to the catchy, warm, heartfelt chorus. A must-see, memorable contribution to humanity.