He’s an average boy, gets picked on by bullies, yet he’s a friend of a jock. This makes for an interesting movie.
We start out with the stereotypical nerd. His glasses get smashed to pieces by one of the school bullies, and he soon has the normal tape style look on them. In the drive home with his jock friend, incidentally in a Mustang of all things (classic, not plastic), he notices a car in a dilapitated house just off the main highway. It’s a rustbucket, it looks terrible, and this same car had some kind of bad vibe when it was first built. The seller says his brother died in that car, no one came between him and that machine, not even his wife or daughter.
The nerd’s parents are less than thrilled at the rust bucket. The perfect family, with snot nosed parents beneath that squeaky clean exterior. That car will not be in their yard. It’s whisked off to a do it yourself garage, where it is slowly fixed up to the point it is brand new.
The car starts to get a life of its own, while at the same time, the new owner sheds his wuss skin and becomes macho. No one comes between him and that car, not even the newest popular girl at school. When the bullies come around again, Christine, the car, starts to hunt each of them down.
The Plymouth Fury will forever be burned into everyone’s mind. It’s an 80’s movie, and you won’t find anything like this released in recent years.
Yozuki’s Drive - 10
