Little Darlings (1980) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
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- This is the original review of Little Darlings by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" in 1980. All of the segments pertaining to the movie have been included.
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The final scene of "Little Darlings" makes me cry every time. It's absolutely perfect.
Great closing shot
between this movie and "Foxes" from the same year, i had all sorts of crushes back then.
Yes! Kristy, Tatum, and Jodie…the holy trinity of young babes back in the 70s!
This is a clear case of why PG-13 Was Needed.
yep
Ebert says it's talky and awkward and he's not wrong, but I think that's part of the charm. These characters are awkwardly stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out romantic intimacy and I think the filmmakers were much more focused at presenting a sort of naturalism to the dialogue and performances. In many ways it feels like a proto-Richard Linklater film.
I really loved this movie right from the very start when Kristy McNichol kicked that guy in the balls...one of the best highlights in this film. By far one of the best coming-of-age films ever and a lot of fun to watch!
My mom loved this movie. She was 15 when she saw it
M0dernCrusader - My name is actually Debbie, I was also 15 years old in 1880 hen this came out!
@@DebbieW19651980.
Wow. How off the mark were these guys? The food fight reminds us that these are kids, an important part of the narrative which is very much about that transition from childhood to young adulthood. It's a purely joyful moment which isn't played for cheap laughs at all. You can tell that every child in that scene is just being themselves and genuinely having a blast.
A great coming-of-age teenage movie and teens were not allowed to see it. I don't know what it would have been rated today. I can understand the R rating back then, after all a boy does get kicked in the balls by Kristy McNichol in the opening scene, it shows a condom machine being raided and there is a lot of talk about having sex.
I saw it in the theater and I was 10. I think a friend's mother may have been with us. I don't think it was inappropriate for someone my age.
I love this movie 🎬, little darlings, tatum and kristy ,both are such good solid actresses.i really wish both of them did more movies after this movie.
One of my favorite movies ever. I'm guessing that Siskel & Ebert didn't watch it til the end? That's okay I guess. I consider Angel and Faris's little conversation while sitting on the swings at the end to be the greatest scene ever made. I sometimes wonder if "it" really happened, and that is why the scene was so strong. I guess I'll never know.
They did a fair job. The movie couldn't decide if it was Animal house or meatballs or something serious
What I loved about Ebert & Siskal is listening to the whole review. They have to distill it down to yes or no (or thumbs up or down), but that removes the nuances. In this review, I agree with them to some extent. I think the filmmakers included the Meatballs like hijinks to appeal to kids. I know I loved this movie when I was a kid.
@@XxowendanxX It was both. It was characters on the Animal House level trying to do something serious, and the fact that they were young dumb kids trying to find sex like it was nothing proves it. They were immature children trying to do a very mature thing, and they realized that the hard way by the end of the movie.
In this film and in 'My Bodyguard', young Matt Dillon seems to be doing a Brando impression or at least shows that he's been influenced by him. Can totally understand that.
"Ordinary People" is another example of a movie that should have been PG. I think it was R because they used the F word a couple times.
What a stupid rating system. When you consider those films had the same rating as something like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Damn matt Dillon was in everything in the 80's
Loved this movie when I was a kid!
When my newly released 4k and Blu-ray copy arrives through the mail I will personally give it a PG-13 rating myself.
It's about time it's on Blu-ray long overdue
Ebert disliked Somewhere in Time too (also from 1980). Chalk him up as a rabid anti-romantic who took every last rule from film critic school to heart, and left his heart behind in his locker.
Couldn't stand it when everything was rated R. Was unfair to early teens and to movies themselves unfairly stigmatizing movies as explicit when it wasn't the case a t all. How about this - Pale Rider was rated R. There was hardly anything in it. But until PG 13 came along it was kinda of unfair ratings system. And how on God's earth Sixteen Candles got away with PG I'll never know.
My parents were generally pretty strict, but willing to take me to a lot of R-rated movies, and I'm grateful for all the good stuff I got to see.
I saw this film in the theater. I was 10 years old.
Nobody mentioning Krista Erickson but what a cutie.....😊
I like Little Darlings a lot, but I agree that it tries too hard to be a comedy. The food-fight scene is especially awkward and forced. It could have been better if they'd dropped the silly bits and let the more dramatic parts unfold. I also agree that the R rating seems a bit harsh...PG-13 would have been more appropriate.
I remember staying up until midnight to watch this on cable when I was ten years old, let's just say the movie was a bit inappropriate for a ten year old
I never could understand why this movie got an R rating. There were PG movies at that time that had much worse content than anything in this film. Made no sense at all.
COUGH Sixteen Candles COUGH
l wonder how influential Meatballs was on this film. Gene got it right. Much of this film degenerated into silly summer camp hijinks, which was perfectly fine for a film like Meatballs, but not when your movie apparently aspires to tackle mature, serious subjects. I still consider LD a guilty pleasure from my youth, though.
I can never understand how they rated that movie “R”, since there’s not a lot of nudity, language, violence, or intense sequences, throughout. And it does seem rather unfair for the younger audience to NOT see it, while they are about the same age as most of the kids used in the movie.
To be fair, I would've said that it could’ve been at least rated PG-13 (their rating of "PG" seemed too soft), if "Little Darlings" was dealing with the subject of sex and the thought of losing their own virginity to boys at a summer camp. If they took it to the next level with all of that, then the movie itself, would actually be rated "R".
Still surprised so many people of all ages agreed a movie about children fucking could be cute and wholesome.
Actually, it was wholesome in the sense that it attempted to convey the damage that's done when teens who are still maturing, try to engage in a sexual relationship when their brains/emotions are still not there yet. Having said that, I'm actually of the belief that sex should be within the context of marriage, but I felt that at the least, this movie in a secular way, was actually trying to "warn" of the impact of prematurely having sex too young and too casually.
@@franceslarsen4037 Ummm, K.
The subject matter is what got this film an R rating.
A pretty good movie which had no predecessor and starring two of the hottest actresses around with a great music soundtrack. Armand Assante is very good, but check out Cynthia Nixon in her first role before Sex In The City and later carpet munching!
Oh yeah, Cynthia Nixon was so adorable as a kid.
I loved Cynthia in Amadeus. There's too many cute girls going thatta way!!
i dont really like this movie just because the ending broke my heart. like, what happend with randy?! 😕
I Like Little Darlings my girlfriend Hates it
She should have at least liked the intro-opening scene where Kristy McNichol kicked that guy in the balls...I would think every girl would have enjoyed that!
Boy are they off base
Unfair BS review
This is a perfect example of why I was never a huge fan of these two. They always missed the mark. Stop using your 40 year old minds when reviewing a movie about young teens. They are often talky and very awkward. And yes, they might get into food fights to hold onto their childhood while they’re struggling to become adults. Get a clue guys.
You can't seduce boys. We either like you or we don't. If we like you, all you have to do is say 'yes'. If we don't like you, nothing you can do will change that.
That's why girls are cooler. We can wear them down. Guys can be worn down too but it's a hundred times more difficult. I've seen cases where girls have worked hard and won over guys but it happens the other way around way more often.
I have to disagree, at least at a younger age. I had a couple girls I wasn't interested in at first that worked their way in.
Boom you nailed it. Girls can be Wooed and seduced in various ways but us guys are either into you or we aren’t. This usually involves a good degree of physical attraction because if it’s not there then it’s generally not going to happen