I really didn't like all the smoking in the film - Especially from Mark...I mean, Reggie is a mum and yet she smokes in front of the boy and lets him do so to?!
But, anyway, Brad Renfrew was great in this picture.
‘Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).
Do you drink? Sometimes I don't like seeing people drink so much in movies. So what - it's part of a story, showing how people cope with stress at times. Alcohol is a drug, just like cigarettes. BTW, I don't smoke.
shareSo you think it's okay for an 11 year old to smoke? Wow, I hope you're not a parent!
‘Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).
I never said I thought it was ok. And, I AM a parent and I certainly always discouraged my son from doing addictive substances. But, the smoking was part of portraying his rebelliousness. Them smoking together showed they both had emotional issues - a bonding. And, most young people DO try some substances of one type or another regardless of what parents teach them - that's pretty much a fact of life. I just think it added to the realism of the movie.
shareExactly! It was absolutely a matter of life and death for Mark to connect and open up to her. Maybe he didn't know that (or want to admit it), but she did. What would have happened to him otherwise?
Cigarette companies advertised to children in the 1970s and 1980s. I have a preschool class picture with KOOL cigarettes advertised in the background. They kept saying back then that it was for the adults who worked at the school but when they were around Charlie Brown characters or other cartoon characters that sort of shows the lie in that.
Then you had gum made to look like cigarettes, snuff, and chewing tobacco. They still have that some places today but it's all in fun, right? Riiight...
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You've clearly never been to New Orleans.
shareMaybe things are different now but kids do smoke, I don't remember how old I was but my friends would steal them from their parents and we would smoke them. You are delusional if you think kids never do bad things, this movie shows what things are like in the real world. Not everything is accurate but the smoking is.
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Right on! Most people start smoking because they see their parent's smoke.
sharewow. get over yourself.
it's a movie and he was suppose to be a "riot kid" so he was smoking too, it's part of the story ain't it?
besides, some people smoke and some drink and eat red meat if you can believe it lol
This may be wrong, but I am convinced that cigarette companies have part financed films in the past (maybe not now so much). In certain films you do see a lot of smoking and it could be a condition of the finance that characters are portrayed as smoking to make it seem more acceptable, an insidious form of advertising.
However, this film is from 1993 when smoking was less verboten than nowadays. Also I agree with other posters that the kid would most likely be experimenting, as kids do!
I can't think of other examples offhand but I have seen films where smoking seemed to be unnecessarily copious. Oh yes, 'Silkwood' was one! But set in the 70's of course.
You're delusional if you think that kids don't smoke anymore. It's nothing new. I was reading facts about smoking and one of them said that each day, 3,000 kids try their first cigarette. Big shock.
shareI agree, I was smoking at his age, people smoked more then than now. Remember, everyone smoked at one time in our world. Everyone in Europe smoked now. I did not think anything about it.
sharePeople are too sensitive nowadays. I thought the smoking was very true to real life. Kids smoke. That's a fact. I didn't have a problem with it at all. Smoking may not be healthy, but people do it and we can't change the fact.
Lol exactly Penguin.. This wasn't designed to be a family friendly movie, it's based around murder and suicide.
And one thing I noticed as a former smoker.. When Mark takes the cigarette from Reggie and takes a drag, he exhales through his nose.. Someone who has never smoked before or is 'play smoking' for the camera would never do that. That's something you do as a 'regular' smoker.. So at 12 years old, Brad Renfro was already a smoker before he was cast in the movie... Food for thought.
I never noticed that before, but you're right. I'm a former smoker too and I started smoking at 15, so 11 or 12 isn't really that far behind though.
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I started when I was 13, so I didn't really find it odd at all. But like I said, 'power dragging' (what he was doing) is not something that someone who doesn't smoke would be able to do without coughing and gagging. It requires actually inhaling the smoke, then exhaling through your nose as you're pulling the next drag into your mouth. You can't fake that.
LOL that's a 'skill' you acquire when you have to smoke fast - like in the boys room between periods... 😜
LOL that's a 'skill' you acquire when you have to smoke fast - like in the boys room between periods... 😜
R.I.P. Rick Ducommun and Tony Longoshare
I agree with everyone saying that people shouldn't be so shocked when kids smoke. This movie's only 20 years old. It's not ancient. Lots of kids still smoke to this day.
shareBlondfashionisto, you're an *beep* What's bad with smoking in front of a child?? I'm 19 and my parents always smoked in front of me. What a stupity. Please fix your brain.
shareYes and smoking in front of children leads to second hand smoke illnesses and cancer.
And, 'What a stupidy'...I think you probably mean What Stupidity. Please fix your OWN brain and develop better writing skills.
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tHew tons of trucks and vehicles that'm sure pass across your home area every day, that really pollutes th e environment, and not a *beep* cigarette or ciggar. Please, check your brain again and when you get tp know your results (dumb) let me know. You're the kind of person who truts all the stupities the governemnt's tell you without evaluating them first. You think, as the government has banned smoking in close spaces an tested it is that it's unhealthy..... ONCE GAIN, the example of THE TRUCKS. JERK ZERO personality and ability to think on your own. INEPT I'm just curious how old are you?? And yeah *beep* this isn't a a fromal report I do0n't *beep* care about typing mistakes.. JERK
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