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Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

An absolutely wonderful movie that is still one of the best-kept secrets of 1980s cinema. Being a Philadelphian, I love this movie if for no other reason that our city is rarely featured in period piece films. The producers of "The In Crowd" got most of the nuances of 1960s Philadelphia correct-the red police cars, shopping at Gimbel's (they went to the Cheltenham store), adults listening to WIP on the radio(although the announcer they used for it, Ed Hurst, never worked at WIP),and Vicki wearing a Phillies' jacket with the proper "P" logo of that time. Furthermore, the exterior of the school that Vicki attended is Little Flower High School, one of the three all-girls high schools in Philadelphia. Del's school, Cheltenham High, is the alma mater of hall of famer Reggie Jackson, who, according to the time period of the movie, had just graduated the year before. I think the train station the kids hung out in was the Wayne Junction station, but I could be wrong. The movie is wholesome and engaging. The characters are such that you really care about what happens to them. It's a shame they don't make movies like this anymore.Treat yourself and watch this, regardless of your age. Give this 5 stars!!

Me and my sister used to watch this movie REPEATEDLY growing up. My dad taped it off of HBO or something and I watched it until the tape literally deteriorated. I had not seen it in years and then I mentioned it to a friend of mine. A week later I woke up to find the movie on my front door step. I now watch it religiously again. I am thankful that this part of my childhood has returned but it would be much greater on DVD.The plot summary kind of leaves you wondering if it is worth the rent. Let me tell you, it IS. Well if you are a teenage girl who likes music from the 50's and 60's LOL Del is 'in love' with Vicky, who he watches on an after school dance show called 'Perry Parker.' Vicky however does not know he exists and has a boyfriend who also dances on the show, Doogan (Dugan?) Del finds a way to sneak into the dance show, befriending Vicky. Doogan, the rebel with a record, is not pleased with the situation and does what he can to make it work in his favor.My favorite character of all was Ina, Vicky's best friend, and Popeye's girlfriend."OH BOY, Let's break out the Tang!" Definitely worth watching, even if it is just for a laugh. :-D

When I caught this movie on TV the other day, I kept watching it because I could tell the points they were trying to make, but somehow the filmmakers kept missing the mark. I really wanted to like this movie. I just kept getting distracted by its disjointedness and low production values. Case in point: Because I missed the opening, I had no idea what movie this was while I was watching it, but I could tell right away it had been made in the 80s even though it was obviously set in the 60s. The wardrobe and hair look like something a bunch of kids would do for a 60s theme dance with the help the their parents and 80s clothes out of their own closet. Every look was just enough off that it didn't look at all authentic.I could almost follow the story line, and I did want the main character to succeed. BUT almost every line of dialogue was mumbled, and every scene rang false, as if I could see a map outlining that the actors needed to get from from A to B in a particular scene, but they don't actually ever get there. Yet the next scene continues on as if they did. It took me almost the whole movie to really get what was going on, and a lot of time it felt as if there were entire chunks of the movie missing. Overall it's a mediocre movie. Not terribly bad, just not terribly good. I can't quite explain why I kept watching - maybe I just kept hoping a scene would succeed. It looks as if they point they were trying to make was that time in your life when you know everything is changing. It's just been done much better elsewhere. By the way, the dancing is kinda' cool, but boy some of the moves look like 80s break dancing instead of 60s jive.

Supposed to be a fun retro '50s or '60s movie, but done very amateurishly. This is THE worst movie I have ever seen! The (lack of) plot is so bad and the acting and music are so cheesy that I asked myself aloud several times what I was doing watching it. The only reason I continued watching was because I couldn't believe how horrible it was! It wasn't even horrible in an odd funny way, like Hardbodies or Coneheads. The people who made this movie were serious about it, I think. DON'T EVEN WATCH THIS AS A JOKE!