'80s Rewind: 'Firstborn'
Peter Weller did more in the '80s than stomp around Old Detroit in a robo-suit.
He played the creepy new boyfriend in "Firstborn," a 1984 drama which got very little attention during its release.
I worked as a video store clerk in the '80s, and whenever customers asked me to recommend a movie that wasn't on the "new release" shelf, I'd steer them to "Firstborn."
Never had a complaint.
Teri Garr plays a divorced mom who, in a moment of weakness, lets a shady new beau (Weller) into her life and home. Garr's children (Christopher Collet, Corey Haim) immediately sense the guy's a fraud, setting in motion the tense sequences to come.
Yes, the climax is overwrought, but the film's solid underpinnings explain the emotional fireworks.
And it has one of the two Coreys ... what more can you ask from an '80s film?
posted by Toto @ 8:16 AM
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You know what non-Robocop and non-24 Peter Weller I enjoy? The New Age. Also, I had a tape of 50/50 when I was a kid, and that wasn't so bad to an action hungry 10-year-old.
"The New Age" is terrific ... a buried gem, to be sure. Need to watch it again. If memory serves, Batman himself Adam West has a small but cheeky role in it
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