Mr. Furley is walking by the kids' apartment suite when he sees the door is open so he decides to snoop. He overhears Jack telling Chrissy that he'll never make it to next Tuesday. Furley thinks it's some kind of health crisis. Jack's actually talking about having to wait another 3 days for his Amazon delivery to arrive.
That standard Three's Company plot device is pretty much the hook in American Flyers.
Except this movie is about a couple of brothers who like to race bicycles. Kevin Costner is a 20-something doctor who sports a moustache to make him look older and smarter. David Grant is the younger brother. There are some female adornments who add nothing.
Written by an arts-school grad. To appeal to emotionally stunted teenagers. Photographed with the artlessness of a coloring book. And directed with the skill of a middle-school Christmas pageant director. It even comes with more than one obligatory (for the 80s) montage.
American Flyers is bland enough to be a Very Special After School Special. The most shocking thing about it is that somebody so stiff, so dull, so hopelessly whitebread as Kevin Costner could have an enduring career as anything other than a semi-reguiar on a daytime soap opera. The guy has all the charisma of untinted paint.
That standard Three's Company plot device is pretty much the hook in American Flyers.
Except this movie is about a couple of brothers who like to race bicycles. Kevin Costner is a 20-something doctor who sports a moustache to make him look older and smarter. David Grant is the younger brother. There are some female adornments who add nothing.
Written by an arts-school grad. To appeal to emotionally stunted teenagers. Photographed with the artlessness of a coloring book. And directed with the skill of a middle-school Christmas pageant director. It even comes with more than one obligatory (for the 80s) montage.
American Flyers is bland enough to be a Very Special After School Special. The most shocking thing about it is that somebody so stiff, so dull, so hopelessly whitebread as Kevin Costner could have an enduring career as anything other than a semi-reguiar on a daytime soap opera. The guy has all the charisma of untinted paint.