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Rock star of the moment John Waite sings the cheeseball song Change that makes up part of the pop soundtrack. The speech frames the outlook of the entire movie.

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Elmo states he’s going to watch a wrestling match to which Louden gets upset and states that it’s not worth losing a night’s pay for six minutes.Įlmo’s inspirational speech about six minutes is one of the great highlights in a movie that seems predictable. Louden observes Elmo putting on a suit and tie and asks him where he thinks he’s going.

Elmo is a working class stiff who shouldn’t miss a day of pay.

Right before his wrestling match Louden stops by to see his friend Elmo. Louden knows he’ll move on from high-school and he states that he wants to accomplish something great before he leaves it but he is clearly unaware of what he should do. These people love, support and believe in Louden and want him to pursue his dreams. His role models are simple, people like his mechanic father, and his alcoholic line cook friend. People in his town don’t go on to do great things. Louden is surrounded by the unambitious everyman. Manly’s melancholy poem speaks of a young child, who represents every person, on her realization that life is finite and death is inevitable. In the movie Louden’s teacher recites “Spring and Fall To a Young Child” by the poet Gerald Manly. The movie is far more than just some gangly kid trying to out wrestle his opponent. He decides to drop two weight classes in order to challenge the toughest opponent, Brian Shute (Frank Jasper), a menacing 3-time state champion from nearby rival Hoover High School, who has never been defeated in his high school career.” In choosing to do this Louden puts himself at odds with his own team mates and his decision may cost them a championship.īut not so fast…There’s more to it. Visionquest is a story about a high school wrestler who has, ” just turned eighteen and decided that he needed to do something truly meaningful in his life. The movie is just another formulaic coming of age movie but let me tell you it’s a solid coming of age movie.

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Actor Matthew Modine, of Full Metal Jacket fame, played the lead character named Louden Swain. It has become a cult classic for those into wrestling films. Probably one of the most inspirational and underrated sports films to come out in the last 30 years is the movie Visionquest. As movies go there are a lot of good ones and bad ones out there.

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