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Actors: Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Sean Astin, Jonathan Ke Quan, Kerri Green
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Goonies |
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A group of friends find a treasure map and decide to follow it.
Their journey begins in a tunnel under a restaurant and leads into a series of caves.
The family that owns the restaurant, two guys and their mom, who also happen to be criminals, catch one the kids that gets left behind and force him to tell them about the map. The family locks the kid in the cellar with another slow-witted family member with a deformed face and decides to follow the kids and take the treasue.
The kids decipher the map and navigate a series of boobietraps until they arrive in a huge cave containing a pirate ship full of treasure.
The family of criminals catches them and plans to kill them.
However, the kid was captured and the deformed man escaped from the cellar and they show up just in time thwart the criminals.
They save the kids and the criminals just before the cave collapses.
--BRANDON SWENSON, Resident Scholar
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Prisoners escape and local kids are being chased by them as they search for hidden treasure.
--Michael, Resident Scholar
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Mikey and his friends try to save their home by finding some lost treasure belonging to 'One Eyed Willy'
A gang of criminals called the fatellies are on there trail after the tresaure as well.
--Katie Hagerty, Resident Scholar
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THE GOONIES, written by Chris Columbus, has been directed by Richard Donner in 1985.
A group of young kids, the Goonies, wants to help Michaël and Brandon Walsh to keep their house a consortium lusts after in order to enlarge a golf course. They discover, in the mansion's loft, an old map of the XVIIth century describing where is hidden the treasure of the pirate "One-eyed" Willy and so decide to find it in order to raise the money that will save their friends's home.
Following the map's indications, they soon arrive at the Fratelli family's hidden cache near the sea. The Fratellis, under Ma Fratelli's firm hand, have just organized an escape and are researched by the local police. Furthermore, one of the brothers Fratelli, a gentle monster, is locked in the house's cellar. The kids eventually find a cavern under a chimney and begin a long journey through numerous caverns filled with dangerous traps left by Willy the pirate to protect his treasure. Chunk, one of the Goonies, who had been caught by the Fratellis, escapes after having revealed to them that his friends are about to discover a treasure hidden somewhere under the house. He sympathizes with the gentle monster and follows with him his friends's paths. So do the Fratellis for a dreadful chase through dark caverns.
Superb cinematography but so stupid. Even for teenagers.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Goonies |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 27.5%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 42.5%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- money/gems/treasure
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- California
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
How many deaths in film?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- swords
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
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