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Summary: Worth Buying Soley For The Surprise Ending
Review: You've gotta get this film, if for no other reason than to treat yourself to the totally unexpected, bizarre-plot-twist, slam-into-you-from-the-other-direction surprise ending that occurs when wrestler Swain takes on champion Shute. You're absolutely not going to believe how they concluded this story. I was knocked completely off my chair by the outcome. Who would ever have thought..... ?
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Summary: Motivation
Review: "My name's Louden Swain. Last week I turned 18 and I realized that I haven't done anything yet. So I made this deal with myself. This is the year I make my mark". That is (roughly) how the movie starts, with Louden (modine) jumping rope in the background. I bet I watched that beginning, just the first 5 minutes about 20 times in high school. I loved this whole movie. It is a great motivatial story. If you work hard good things happen. (and you get the girl too).
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Summary: Great buy even without any extras!
Review: This movie is one of the best highschool sport movies of all time, no question. It is about Louden Swain and his "Vision Quest" to beat Shute the 3 time state champion and undefeated wrestler at 168 lbs. of another rival school. There is only a couple things in Louden's way and that's 23 lbs. he must shead to make weight and a women who just sorta appears into his life.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is just a great movie plain and simple.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Review: I love this movie mostly because it was filmed in my city of Spokane, Washington. I just found this out yesterday by watching it on VH1. I never knew that Spokane had been in any movie before. WE NEVER GET ANYTHING EXCITING HERE! WOO HOO! I watched the movie and the plot was good :) I recommend it to many people.
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Summary: Vision Quest slams down the opposition
Review: This is an emotional movie about a boy destined to be a man. In this tearjerker, Matthew Modine turns in a wonderful performance, starring as Lodin Swaine, the high school wrestler struggling through the pressures of the wrestling life and also the perils of being a teenage boy. With a pending potential match against defending state champion, Shute. While cutting weight and training for the big match, Lodin meets an older girl named Carla, and falls in love. The movie ends with the climatic match...and you'll be surprised with the turnout. This movie takes you on an emotional roller-coaster through the harsh life of a high school wrestler. Being one myself in the past, this movie touched a soft spot in my heart. This is a must see for wrestlers and anyone else who has struggled through a tough time in life.
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Summary: INSPIRATIONAL AND AWESOME TO WRESTLERS EVERYWHERE
Review: I am a high school wrestler, and good at what I do. This movie(as well as the novel)is inspirational as well as a great motivational tool IMO.
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Summary: If you love the 80's and ever wrestled, you'll love this!
Review: Actually, I don't think it's NECESSARY to have ever wrestled or to love the 80s, but I suspect that both help! I love the music and this movie just plain entertains me.
I think it has at least one good message also: commit to what you love and -- as a famous ad campaign says -- "just do it!" ... Very inspiring.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: In a great film with Matthew Modine, I think that the character of the Thompson medic was played beautifully by Paul Spangenberg. I highly recommend that anyone that goes to Garfield High School, see your marine science teacher at his best. Wonderful job SPANG!!
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Summary: Almost TOO energetic
Review: Matthew Modine does an amazing job in this film, as Louden Swain. He plays a high school wrestler, learning about life and love, with the help of a high-energy soundtrack and the stupendous Linda Fiorentino. Louden decides that this, his senior year in high school, is the year his true life will begin, and starts pushing hinself to achieve superhuman performance levels as a wrestler. He sets himself the goal of dropping to a lower weight class in order to wrestle against the titan of wrestling in his state, just to show he's got it in him. This movie has an amazing soundtrack, and an incredibly high energy level. Viewers with a wrestling background might also like the book "The World According to Garp," by John Irving, in case someone out there hasn't heard of that book. I myself was never into wrestling, but I did do track and field, which is similar in a lot of ways -- there's no ball to seize control of, for one thing, and you basically just have to abuse yourself. Probably most people seeing this review saw this movie back when it came out in the eighties, and are looking for a trip down memory lane. For younger, school age people, who might be looking for a good movie to get them psyched, I have a few thoughts. One of Louden Swain's reasons for getting so into his wrestling in this movie is to get a scholarship to a good university. He wants, at least at the beginning of the movie, to become a doctor. If you are in a similar position, and perhaps from a family that isn't very well-informed about how such things happen, let me just tell you that wrestling wasn't really his "only way out." Far from it. I enjoyed the excitement of this movie, but I found myself wondering if Louden Swain might have somehow used up so much energy, beating himself up as an athlete that it might have had a negative effect on his ability to draw upon quieter, less frenzied sources of energy in his chosen career path as a healer. Think about this, if you are a high school student seeing this movie. Every hour Louden Swain spent doing laps, or jumping rope, or listening to "Lunatic Fringe," was an hour he COULD have spent studying human anatomy in the library, or writing to college pre-med professors to see if they needed lab assistants. Face it, high school sports feel important at the time, but... does it really matter? Come on. This movie is a lot of fun, but I do have a few problems with its message, and its energy. Just a thought. Basically, however, it is a movie with heart, which is rare, so I give it four stars.
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