The Goonies October 16, 2010

Sat, Oct 16 @ 2PM THE GOONIES "A bunch of kids, led by a diminutive Sean Astin (Sam the Hobbit in The Lord of the Rings) let their overactive imagi- nations run riot when they find an antique treasure map. Suggesting that a mythical pirate's booty stash might be located just around the next cliff, the Goonies follow the map in order that they might be able to save their hard-up coastal community from being turned into a golf course. Of course the map leads them through all sorts of perilous near misses including underground caves, booby-trapped mineshafts and into the hands of a family of Italian mobsters led by vicious matriarch Mama Fratelli. Looking at the film now, it works beautifully as pure family entertainment, heavy on the sar- castic wit and full of unadulterated corn, cheese and hokum, especially in the final family group-hug scene." (Nik Huggins, Futuremovies.co.uk) Richard Donner, US, 1985, Ages 10+, 114 min.

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