The most dangerous car in 1980s movies was Christine’s 1957 Plymouth Fury, but the second most dangerous was the green 1967 Pontiac GTO driven by Lulu (Melanie Griffith) that barrels into the life of yuppie Charlie (Jeff Daniels) to kidnap him for a weekend of life-wrecking fun. In a decade of rebellious cinema where every hip movie kid was trying to be John Waters, David Lynch, or Alex Cox, Jonathan Demme flipped the script in this crazy East Coast road movie by having the normies try to navigate rebellion in a corporate world. Is it actually hip to be square? Find out in this delirious screwball rom-com. – Richard Whittaker
Nov. 23-24
