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So Far, At Least, Not a Space Camp Remake / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | June 29, 2009 | Comments (35)

Here’s a name you don’t hear very often anymore: Lea Thompson. She, of course, was the first crush for every science geek born around 1976, thanks to Space Camp, a crush that was snuffed out for many when she kissed her son in Back to the Future. She’s been dormant, it seems, since “Caroline in the City” went off the air, although — without looking — I could probably guess that she’s been in a few Lifetime movies of the week since then.

Anyway, she’s been attached to a new movie called A Town Called Malice, in an effort, I can only assume, to take all of the cool out of The Jam’s song. Howard Deutch (The Whole Ten Yards, My Best Friend’s Girl) will direct. The movie, which is currently being shopped around to TV outlets, is a dramedy about a former rock n’ roll star (Thompson), who returns to her hometown with her estranged teenage daugther after her husband self-destructs during a concert.

So, in essence, it sounds exactly like the sort of made-for-TV movie that Lea Thompson has been reduced to, and the kind of movie that a guy with no box-office hits would direct.


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Made-For-TV movies? They still make those?

Ohhh right, maybe if I had cable I would know what that was.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at June 29, 2009 6:03 PM

To me Lea will always be Amanda Jones: cheap, sleazy and from the wrong side of the tracks.

My kinda gal.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 29, 2009 6:07 PM

Oh jeepers. That sounds about as much fun as "Georgia". "Georgia" was NOT FUN.

Yeah, she looked great on "Caroline In The City", her and her "Cats" friend.

Posted by: Jay at June 29, 2009 6:11 PM

I can't remember the exact Jinx quotes, but a buddy and I got many laughs doing impressions of Jinx's voice...

"Jinx must get Max to space!!!"

Back To The Future predates Space Camp, so I don't think it snuffed out the Lea Thompson crushes. Back To The Future was released in the summer of 1985; Space Camp came after the Challenger disaster in 1986.

Yes, being a nerd born in 1975, I was way into Lea Thompson. I even watched several episodes of Caroline In The City solely based on that crush. I'll admit I enjoyed Howard The Duck and Casual Sex? for her as well.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at June 29, 2009 6:15 PM

Lea has recently been one-third of the rotating Hallmark Channel Mysteries series. John Larroquette and Kellie Martin are the other two-thirds. She's a soccer mom/part-time (formerly-retired) spy whose code name is Jane Doe. Nope, I'm not making that up.

Posted by: appwitch at June 29, 2009 6:33 PM

....a crush that was snuffed out for many when she kissed her son in Back to the Future.

Oh, I think not. Please consider that this may be the result of living my entire life in Podunkia.

Posted by: admin at June 29, 2009 6:42 PM

I've been crushing on Thompson ever since Jaws 3-D. Hell, I'd still kill for her just to spit on me as she's passing by.

You neglected to mention that Deutch already directed Thompson in Some Kind of Wonderful.

Also, Thompson's nude scene in All the Right Moves (along with the infamous Phoebe Cates pool scene in Ridgemont High) are the two reasons I broke the rewind button on my VCR back in the day...

Posted by: Case at June 29, 2009 6:44 PM

CHERRY BOMB REUNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: rio at June 29, 2009 7:16 PM

I'm with Slim, she remains Amanda Jones.
However, was Stoltz wearing a fuck ton of pancake makeup? And blush? I love that movie to death, but I can't ever stop staring at him and thinking, "Oh honey, find your natural shade and blend."

Posted by: Sharon at June 29, 2009 7:34 PM

oh thank god, i thought it was a back to the future remake!

Posted by: mswas at June 29, 2009 7:42 PM

Case >> When she was chomped in Jaws 3-D (the first time I saw her as well), I was extremely dismayed. As horrible as that movie was, that says something about the extent of my infatuation.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at June 29, 2009 7:42 PM

Crispin Glover's haircut creeps me the way out.

Posted by: BWeaves at June 29, 2009 7:53 PM

I saw her in Cabaret on Broadway a few years back, post-Caroline. She wasn't bad, but she was no Natasha (or Liza for that matter). If you had a crush, then you should have been there--she wore lingerie most of the time.

VMG

Posted by: Notorius VMG at June 29, 2009 8:01 PM

I've said it before, but apparently it must be repeated. Mary Stuart Mastersom was fucking adorable as Watts, and Amanda Jones can SUCK. IT. HARD. Of course, we can't neglect her in Red Dawn, now, can we? "Wrong, commie, it's Houston!" Also, I miss Del from CITC. In closing, if they fuck with A Town Called Malice, I will lose my fucking mind. At least I've got a decent ear worm for the evening.

Posted by: slower lower at June 29, 2009 8:03 PM

Also, Thompson's nude scene in All the Right Moves (along with the infamous Phoebe Cates pool scene in Ridgemont High) are the two reasons I broke the rewind button on my VCR back in the day...

Posted by: Case at June 29, 2009 6:44 PM

Mine would have to be:
Road House(the "You're going to be my regular saturday night thing baby." scene)
Sea of Love(when she pins Al Pacino from behind against the wall)
Sliver(pretty much every sex scene but once again the pin against the wall, reversed this time)

While I was too young to enjoy these films at the time they came out I do recall the summer my parents let me stay at home alone...and rummage through their film collection.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at June 29, 2009 8:13 PM

I'm with slower lower - Thompson as Amanda Jones was cool, but Mary Stewart Masterson as Watts (I so wanted to meet a cool, hot drummer chick) made SKOW.

As much as we all loved Breakfast Club, I think there was some better writing in Some Kind Of Wonderful.

Posted by: trib at June 29, 2009 8:22 PM

Yeah yeah, I wouldn't mind doing a brake job on a '73 Maverick with Watts. But when the time comes to lay down some sausage Amanda Jones is where it's at.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 29, 2009 8:28 PM

Didn't she end up marrying Howard Deutch?

Posted by: SackmementoCalifornia at June 29, 2009 9:27 PM

That's just cause you know if you tried to change her oil she'd snap your dipstick in two, BSlim. You mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Posted by: slower lower at June 29, 2009 9:30 PM

Here's the ugly secret that none of you will admit:

Lea Thompson was sexy as hell in Back To The Future.

It was everything that Marty McFly could do to stay the away from his sexy teenage and insanely horny mom, and the main reason he had to get the hell out of there. Five minutes longer and he'd have tapped that.

She was hot. You know it.

Posted by: Meander at June 29, 2009 11:59 PM

She was hot. You know it.

I'm surprised it has to be argued. Factor in the strapless gown and it's over.

Posted by: Jay at June 30, 2009 6:57 AM

Excuse me, but I do believe that any crushes on the Lovely Lea were ruined not by her kissing her son in BTtF, but by her literally FUCKING A DUCK!!!!

Unless you're into that sort of thing.
And...there's nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: dammitjanet at June 30, 2009 8:40 AM

Naw, her crimped hair was more of a problem there.

Posted by: Jay at June 30, 2009 9:37 AM

DamnitJanet

Take it back! Take it back right now! Howard the Duck is a classic. That scene IS ROMANCE. How dare you not enjoy cute girl on large stuffed alien duck action. Prude.

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at June 30, 2009 10:15 AM

What is it with ducks? None of them ever wear PANTS!!! Donald, Daffy, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Howard..... Baby Huey only wears a DAMN DIAPER!!! They are all sick, sick bastards, intent on showing their duck-junk to an unsuspecting public at all times.

They MUST BE STOPPED!!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at June 30, 2009 10:23 AM

You know who else didn't wear pants? Wall-E....

Does that mean you are acknowledging that Wall-E is a sexual deviant bent on showing off his circuits to respectable ladies?

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at June 30, 2009 10:35 AM

HELL YES!!! PERVERTED, SICK, TWISTED LITTLE ROBOT!!!!

Look at all the innocent children who have been subjected to this visual abuse over the years!!! WHEN WILL IT STOP??

I demand an investigation into the pantlessness of our cartoons!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at June 30, 2009 10:41 AM

Either you must accept that he has robot junk, in which case, he is a sick flasher OR that he is a eunuch. IF wall-e is a eunuch then he can never ever be loved by Eve-a.

So choose your poison:

Wall-E is a sex offender who should be living in a trailer in Florida.

OR

Wall-E, that cute and adoreable robot, will NEVER experience TRUE LOVE.

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at June 30, 2009 10:43 AM

Oh snap, you are with me! Hooray Damnit Janet! You have seen the light. Wall-E is evil! Sponge Bob is probably also totally getting molested by squidward. I mean, really? Little kid coming over to play in his underwear to some old crochety guy's house. Spongebob = Dennis the Menace w/ child abuse...

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at June 30, 2009 10:49 AM

So is it good I never bothered to see "Wall-E" then?

Posted by: Jay at June 30, 2009 10:51 AM

Wall-E should be listed in the National No-Pants Sexual Deviant Registry.

Squidward: Hey, uh, Spongebob, want to come over and blow my clarinet?

SBSP: *giggle giggle* sure Squidward! Can Patrick come too?

Squidward: Oh, I'd LOVE it if Patrick came!

sick sick sick

Only Mr. Crabs escapes criticism, because I am NOT fucking with the Kurgan!

Posted by: dammitjanet at June 30, 2009 11:22 AM

Only Mr. Crabs escapes criticism, because I am NOT fucking with the Kurgan!

Mr. Crabs probably has silent partners Mr. Syph and Mr. Clap, in which case you wouldn't want to f*ck any of them.

Well, Mr. Syph is silent... I understand the other can cause a bit of screaming.

Posted by: appwitch at June 30, 2009 12:06 PM

As much as we all loved Breakfast Club, I think there was some better writing in Some Kind Of Wonderful.

Agreed, though for me, SKOW is one of those movies that changes a lot as I get older. When I first saw it new (as a recent high school graduate) I was all "ooh-romantic-panty-wetting-aaw." Now I'm kind-of on Eric Stoltz's dad's side: "You spent your college money on booty?!"

Posted by: appwitch at June 30, 2009 12:31 PM

appwitch, now that I have cleaned the Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi off my monitor, I want to congratulate you!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at June 30, 2009 1:46 PM

All I want is to go to an Enchanment Under the Sea Dance with Lea Thompson.

Or Crispin Glover.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at June 30, 2009 7:10 PM





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