Barbnoteboom

I had the misfortune of being subjected to this ...'film' at a house today, while I was working. I love Tim Daly and Valerie Mahaffey, but...this was just plain awful. Acting was terrible, directing, characters...there was nothing good about this movie...Thankfully I left after an hour of working in the house, so don't know what happened with the big audition, or other completely contrived situations or characters...I was horrified that preteens and teens were watching this and thought it was good! My daughter would have turned it off in about 4 seconds or watched it only to make fun of it...awful!! Okay, you need ten lines of text...how many more times can I write awful??

I haven't seen this movie since it aired on HBO in 1979-1980. It must have aired 100 times that month, since HBO was young, and we just got it at my home in Pittsburgh, PA. Wrestling is not a big sport everywhere, but it was in Pittsburgh, so this was a movie I had really wanted to see, as I was a cheerleader, and thought it would be fun to watch. It was a beautiful story, of love, and awkwardness, overcoming difficult home life circumstances, triumph, teamwork, and growth. Lorenzo Lamas, was young and handsome, and his relationship with the coach and English teacher was touching and very realistic. Lorenzo also sang the theme song for this movie...an acoustic guitar performance that I remember touched me. Years later, as a young adult, I got to speak to him on the radio about this film as well as his other early work in Grease, Secrets of Midland Heights, and then of course Falcon Crest. He was surprised I knew of this film and he was very proud of this. He couldn't remember the words to the song, but sang me the Star Spangled Banner instead. Great Memories!