Synopsis
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Jamie Lee CurtisMichelle 'Mike' Cody
- C. Thomas HowellTim Pearson
- Patrick SwayzeErnie 'Slam' Webster
- Jennifer Jason LeighCandy Webster
- William WindomBob Cody
- Troy DonahueDonny Vinton
- Carole CookBetty Welles
- M. Emmet WalshMr. Clark
- Ramon BieriMr. Pearson
- Elizabeth GorceyBonnie Clark
Recommandations
- 75
Chicago Reader
It is a shock and a pleasure to see an American film that doesn't wallow in complacency, but instead suggests—however fleetingly—that disappointment is also a part of life. Curtis is particularly impressive in the strength and maturity she brings to a role written as pure fantasy. - 75
The Associated Press
Rarely has a major film been so coolly designed to capture the young market. Yet for all its crass calculation, Grandview, U.S.A. has a buoyant vitality, an engaging lack of pretense and occasional bursts of humor and sentiment. The movie's prime asset is a bright, attractive cast. [07 Aug 1984] - 63
Miami Herald
Kleiser seems to know something about style and pace after all, and he seems to know something about having fun with a movie. These are minor revelations, and they make Grandview U.S.A. almost unique among its class of film over the past five years: It's worth seeing. [03 Aug 1984, p.C9] - 60
The New York Times
Grandview, U.S.A. is slight, but it has a good enough cast to keep it watchable. - 60
Time Out
It's pleasant enough, as a view of small-town Americana, but played very straight. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
It is a small film, with small, and at times cliched, ideas about rural life, but there is a sweetness about it that is an appealing and refreshing change from the usual roller-coaster films that bombard audiences in the summer. - 40
Washington Post
Grandview, U.S.A., shot in the picturesque small town of Pontiac, Ill., opens with some pleasantly misleading evocations of Breaking Away, then degenerates into one of those blithely cretinous entertainments that leave you despising characters you were presumably meant to like. [08 Aug 1984, p.F9] - 38
Christian Science Monitor
Failed comedy-drama with two intermingled plots, one about a high school boy seeking his own way in life, the other about an older woman with career and romance problems. Directed flatly and lifelessly by Randal Kleiser. [16 Aug 1984, p.31]
