Let’s Make Fun Of A Sports Movie: Lucas

Lucas must have been a really hard sell to producers. A teen romantic comedy in the 1980’s. Talk about risky. Lucas came out in ‘86, to be precise, and was an early stepping stone for a surprising amount of big name actors, and Corey Haim. Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Piven, Courtney Thorne-Smith……..and Corey Haim.

 

The title character is a lowly nerd in the high school caste system. He wears glasses that Jaleel White would later wear on Family Matters, and his football helmet appears to be stolen from NASA. A girl catches Lucas attention, and he decides the only way she’ll slob his knob is by joining the football team. Charlie Sheen plays Lucas’ mentor on the team, and winds up going after the same girl, creating a rivalry on the gridiron, and a love triange on the sidelines. Lucas learns not about love, but about himself. It’s held up surprisingly decently over time. Haim, on the other hand…..

Favorite quote: “If you’re so depressed, why are you eating pizza?”

I found out some disturbing information about the final play of the game at the end: Lucas was an ineligible receiver! From IMDB:

In the football game it would not have mattered if Lucas would have caught the pass because he was playing tackle. Unless they were using some type of unbalanced formation, which I doubt they were, Lucas was inelgible. Also he was wearing number 72 which is an inelgible number unless he checks in with the official.

In addition there were about a half dozen other infractions on the play,(illegal motion, illegal formation, two forward passes, etc, etc, etc,) but this was the most obvious.