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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 6388
Released: March 11, 2003 |
| Our Price: $5.01 |
| Used Price: $4.43 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
At 14 years old, Lukas is a bit too small for his age, and far too smart for his high school classmates. He's more interested in symphonies and science fairs than food fights and football. But when Lucas finds himself falling in love with a cheerleader, who only has eyes for the school's top jock, he grows desperate for her attention, Even if it means risking his pride and his neck at the big game.
Description of Lucas:
A surprisingly engaging story of puppy love and friendship in a teen setting, this film focuses on the title character (Corey Haim), who is nerdy but winningly outgoing. He falls madly for a new girl in town (Kerri Green); since school is out for the summer, he becomes her only friend--until she meets his hunky pal (Charlie Sheen). Meanwhile, Lucas ignores the romantic yearnings of another female pal (Winona Ryder, in her screen debut). Written and directed by David Seltzer, this one is a charmer with substance, featuring strong, open performances by its young cast. It's also fascinating to watch today, more than a decade later, and consider what became of these performers: while Ryder grew to be one of Hollywood's brightest lights, Haim descended into substance abuse, as did Sheen, whose predilection for call girls also made him a talk-show punch line. --Marshall Fine
Lucas Reviews:
Very good 
2008-12-26 - This was a great movie. Kids and adults can both enjoy it. I am from Australia and It was hard to buy this movie in Australian shops so I bought it on Amazon. It was a Christmas present for my Nephew who is 13. He loved it. Its a good wholesome movie that many people may never of heard of because its old but its a great film for kids.
Great movie and sad at the end I always cry 
2008-02-18 - I just want to say that I love this movie. Cory Haim plays this hs student Lucas who is so interested in this girl that he joins the football team just to impress her so she would consider him. He's so tiny and gets hurt pretty bad and winds up in the hospital, but in the end he goes back to school and they all clap for him and it has a very happy ending. Great movie and sad at the end I always cry because I'm so happy for Lucas.
PUPPY LOVE... TE LLEGA AL CORAZON
2007-07-06 - Una de esas magnificas peliculas que se salen del esquema tradicional (y atorrante) de "la chica bonita y el chico guapo"; Lucas es sencillamente lo que llamariamos un INADAPTADO SOCIAL, el tipo con sus propias ideas raras que no encaja con el circulo social tipico de la gente joven (fiestas, deportes, rock, bailes y noviazgos); el es simplemente diferente, fanatico de la naturaleza, intelectual (nerd),amante de la musica clasica, timido... y muy solitario e incomprendido, a causa de lo cual es objeto de constantes burlas y desprecio por los demas; la pelicula cumple la maravillosa funcion de mostrarnos el corazon de un ser humano que necesita sentirse amado, comprendido y aceptado (como muchos de nosotros alguna vez); el drama comienza cuando Lucas se enamora de una Chief-Leader y esto le lleva a hacer cosas tontas y hasta riesgosas para demostrale su amor... ¡¡INCLUSO HUMILLARSE!! es obvio que todos llevamos a un Lucas por dentro ¿no creen?; MARAVILLOSA PARA VERLA CON TODA LA FAMILIA.
"LUCAS" IS CLASSIC, CHARMING, POIGNANT TRIP BACK TO MID-1980'S TEEN CINEMA
2007-06-06 - Long before he was forced by obscurity and/or poverty to try selling his teeth on the Internet for cash, Corey Haim had a brief heydey in mid-1980's films.
(SEE HAIM ALSO IN "SILVER BULLET" AND "THE LOST BOYS.")
This charming film from writer/director David Seltzer is the best. I was delighted to find this on DVD at Amazon,com, and equally delighted to find, after all these years, that the movie retains all of its charm.
Haim plays Lucas, a scrawny geek who doesn't fit in anywhere. He covers his pain by being goofy and outspoken. We know little of his home life. We hear his dad is "alcoholic" and nobody knows where his mother is.
Lucas is smart and sensitive. Lucas loves insects and classical music. He soon falls in love with Maggie (Kerri Green) the new girl in town. The two begin a touching friendship, but things change a bit once school starts. Maggie cares for Lucas, but falls for sensitive/sexy football player Cap (Charlie Sheen). Meanwhile, Lucas never notices that Rena (Winona Ryder in her film debut) has a crush on him. Instead, he joins the football team in order to prove his "prowess" and attractiveness to females. Lucas nearly gets himself killed, but he gains the respect of the entire school.
There is one unfortunate moment in a football team locker room/shower scene where a negative term for "gay" (The Other "F" word) is used. That is unnecessary, but brief. This is almost compensated for by the fact that, even here at age 22. Charlie Sheen is smolderingly sexy. Sheen appears in a lengthy scene without a shirt on, and I say "Thank You, God!" for that. Gratuitous, yes, but I'm extremely grateful.
You could watch this movie and play a game of "Whatever Became Of..." ? as several members of the young cast, including Jeremy Piven, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Ryder, and Charlie Sheen went on to notable careers. I think Sheen and Green appeared together in another film at the same time period titled "THREE FOR THE ROAD". If anybody knows where I can pick that one up, please let me know; and, does anybody know whatever happened to Kerri Green? I'd like to know. And, say what you will about his messy private life or controversial political views, Sheen is a survivor who has worked for a stable, solid career. Whatever individual fates may have befallen the cast, and the sad fact that Haim has virtually vanished off the world radar, "LUCAS" holds up remarkably well; well enough, in fact, to achieve a poignant timelessness and be acknowledged as one of the "CLASSIC" teen films of the 1980's era.
The double sided DVD includes both Full Screen and Wide-Screen presentations of the film
The Painful First Love
2007-05-13 - A beautiful history of a first love between two teenagers. This history is not far from actual love stories, a handsome men, whit an actual girlfriend, but he is falling in love from other girl, and thes girl has a fan too, who is falling in love... Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder looks very young in this excellent film.
