Grandview, USA is the film where Jamie Lee Curtis joins the Brat Pack. She plays
the owner of a Demolition Derby Track in a small town named Grandview..
Depending on how you look at it small towns are the backbone of the USA or a stifling place one can't wait to leave.. C. Thomas Howell wants to leave and badly, but his dad Ramon Bieri has plans for him and plans for Grandview..
Those plans include taking over Jamie lee's track and building some homes and a golf course. Curtis feels an obligation to keep the track she inherite from her dad. She's also involved with Patrick Swayze who is married but wife Jennifer Jason Leigh doesn't take it all that seriously.
All the applecarts are upset when Howell moves in on Curtis. That sets off a chain events and and everyone starts to move toward their proper destinies.
It's a good brat pack film and a nice slice of life in small town USA that takes neither a positive or a negative position on it..
Depending on how you look at it small towns are the backbone of the USA or a stifling place one can't wait to leave.. C. Thomas Howell wants to leave and badly, but his dad Ramon Bieri has plans for him and plans for Grandview..
Those plans include taking over Jamie lee's track and building some homes and a golf course. Curtis feels an obligation to keep the track she inherite from her dad. She's also involved with Patrick Swayze who is married but wife Jennifer Jason Leigh doesn't take it all that seriously.
All the applecarts are upset when Howell moves in on Curtis. That sets off a chain events and and everyone starts to move toward their proper destinies.
It's a good brat pack film and a nice slice of life in small town USA that takes neither a positive or a negative position on it..