Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder star in this 1986 drama. The late, Haim (The Lost Boys) plays Lucas, an intelligent yet odd teen who meets and befriends Maggie (Green), the new girl in school. He immediately has a crush on her, but she doesn't feel the same way about him. Sheen (Wall Street) plays Cappie, a jock who is basically a brother figure of Lucas who finds romance with Maggie. Lucas is jealous and heartbroken, but tries winning her heart by joining the Football team. Ryder (Heathers) plays Rina, a classmate who likes Lucas. Courtney Thorne-Smith (Summer School) and Jeremy Piven (Entourage) co-star in one of their first films. This is a good 80's coming-of-age flick with a good cast & great score by Dave Grusin that's one of Haim's best I recommend.

During the summer vacation, the fourteen year-old Lucas Bly (Corey Haim) meets the sixteen year-old newcomer in town Maggie (Kerri Green) and they become best friends. Lucas is an intelligent boy that loves bugs and shows the mansion where he lives to Maggie. When classes begin, Maggie learns that Lucas is not a popular student but an outcast nerd at school and bullied by the football players. The football captain Cappie (Charlie Sheen) protects Lucas because the boy helped him when he was ill. Soon Lucas has a crush on Maggie but she falls in love with Cappie, while Lucas' schoolmate Rina (Winona Ryder) loves him. When Maggie joins the cheerleaders, Cappie's girlfriend Alise (Courtney Thorne-Smith) becomes jealous of her and she ends the relationship with Cappie. Meanwhile Lucas joins the football team expecting to impress Maggie. During a game, Lucas is hurt and Maggie finds that he lives in a trailer with his alcoholic father. What will happen to Lucas?"Lucas" is a touching classic from the wonderful 80's, with a pleasant and sensitive story of unrequited first love. Corey Haim has a magnificent performance in the role of a boy with no family that falls in love with an older girl. The difference of two years for a fourteen year-old boy is indeed too much. Another attraction is to see Winona Ryder, Charles Sheen and others very young in the beginning of career. After almost thirty years, "Lucas" is still a delightful heartbreaking film. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Inocência do Primeiro Amor" ("The Innocence of the First Love")

Lucas (1986) **** (out of 4) Marvelous coming of age film has Corey Haim playing the title character, a 14-year-old dork who finds himself in high school due to his brains. During the summer he meets a new girl (Kerri Green) who he falls in love with but she ends up with the popular quarterback (Charlie Sheen), which Lucas doesn't quite understand. This comedy/drama is without question one of the best of the 80s as it features a terrific story, a great young cast and some down to Earth real moments that make it an easy classic. The screenplay by writer/director Seltzer makes the right decision to have the characters we're watching to be realistic and smart to the situation going on. I think the script makes the right choice to have Lucas know he's a dork and know that in the real world things don't always go his way. The fact that Lucas falls in love with someone he obviously can't have makes for a lot of movies like this but this film takes it to the next level because Lucas is someone we can all identify with and the supporting players are likely people we know as well. We get the popular character, the dorky character, the popular one and the mean one. All of the characters are given enough time to fully develop where we can connect with all of them and that's why this film works so well. Most films just give us one-note characters but all of the ones here change over time and full develop as the movie unfolds. The film is smart enough to make us understand why some might not take a liking to Lucas and we even turn on him a little as his attitude towards the Green character changes. The performances are also a major plus here as we get a very talent cast and many future famous faces. Haim was born to play this role and he does a terrific job with it as he's able to capture every emotion that his character has and really nails all of them. Be it comedy, drama or romance, Haim hits all the right notes and delivers one of the more memorable performances of the decade. Both Green and Sheen are excellent and really deliver on all their scenes. We even have Jeremy Piven and Winona Ryder delivering good supporting performances. The movie follows a somewhat familiar storyline but it takes a few different spins on the familiar plot and in the end really becomes one of the more memorable films from this genre. It seems there was a different teen movie being released each and every week during the 80s and God knows there are some really bad ones out there but this one here is certainly at the top of the class in terms of heart and entertainment.

I grew up in Wheaton, IL which is a town right next to Glen Ellyn, IL where the high school and movie theater from Lucas where located. This movie is still one of my all time favorites from the 80's. When I was in middle school we had a track meet at Glenbard West High School where Lucas was filmed. It was a thrill to be on the same football field where the movie was filmed. One interesting thing is that for the movie the visitor's bleachers where removed so that Lake Ellyn could be included in the shots. The movie theater used in the film was the Glen Theater in downtown Glen Ellyn. When my friends and I went to the Glen we where all excited and kept saying "This is where Lucas was filmed!". Glenbard West is a beautiful looking high school. The real mascot for the school is the Hilltoppers and not the Pirates like in the movie. One of the biggest disappointments for me was when I was to substitute teach in the Glenbard West gym it was not the gym used in Lucas.