Movie plot holes

[da man]

I've always found the aftermath of the blow-up to be amusing when Craig T. tells Cruise that he's not allowed on tbe bus for the trip home and leaves him at the stadium. If that happened today in real life, Craig T. would be getting in trouble for abandoning a student on a trip.

That's what would have happened THEN in real life, too.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That's what would have happened THEN in real life, too.

Eh, perhaps, perhaps not. Early 1980s community of which football is the be-all and end-all of the town's existence and the coach is almost equivalent to God, as long as he wins? They'd see making the kid walk as a character-building exercise and an appropriate punishment for daring to question the coach's authoritah.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Eh, perhaps, perhaps not. Early 1980s community of which football is the be-all and end-all of the town's existence and the coach is almost equivalent to God, as long as he wins? They'd see making the kid walk as a character-building exercise and an appropriate punishment for daring to question the coach's authoritah.

i thought Cruise/Steph had to ride home with the band/cheerleaders? I could be honestly conflicting it with that actually happening with older brother's football team during those same years.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

i thought Cruise/Steph had to ride home with the band/cheerleaders? I could be honestly conflicting it with that actually happening with older brother's football team during those same years.

I might be misremembering too, but I thought the coach kicked Cruise off and told him the bus was only for members of the team, and Cruise tried to ride with the cheerleaders, but the cheerleading bus left before he could board.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

In The Big Game in "All The Right Moves," Tom Cruise's team has apparently won the game with a goal-line stand. The team leads 14-10 with the ball on its own 1-yard line, but in a driving rain storm the coach (played by future sitcom Coach Craig T. Nelson), doesn't call for the safe QB sneak or even having his team take a safety - he calls for a handoff, which is fumbled and recovered by the defense for the game-winning score.

Just going to add that I apparently only saw the "edited for television" version up until a few years ago. Never knew Leah Thompson did full nudity in the sex scene.