After a several week hiatus, Robert Downey Jr. and I are back and ready for action! I would guess that most have never heard of this week’s film, Johnny Be Good (1988). Remember little Anthony Michael Hall, John Hughes’ nerd extraordinaire? Imagine something decided to make a movie wherein Hall played the jock rather than the dweeb. Okay, let’s take that a step further. Not only is he a football player, but he’s one of the top players in the country, being recruited by schools from all over the nation. Unbelievable as this may be, herein lies the premise of this late-eighties gem (note: “gem” to be read with intense sarcasm).
