Fandango

Part of Loft Staff Selects, a monthly series showcasing film favorites chosen by our amazing Loft Cinema staff!  This month’s film was chosen by Edgar Ibarra!

In this coming-of-age comedy/drama, starring Kevin Costner in his first leading role and produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, a group of young Texans discover that life after college isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  College is over, now real life can begin. Well, not yet. The Groovers, five college roommates in Texas, class of ’71, find that breaking up is hard to do. So, Gardner (Costner), the group’s official “Groover and Shaker”, decides that he and his buddies should chuck their worries about an imminent wedding, the Vietnam draft and crashing the working world to take off in Phil’s Caddy for a final footloose tear across the Lone Star State, headed to the Rio Grande for their last hurrah before full-blown adulthood sets in. Directed by first-time feature filmmaker Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), based on his USC student film called Proof, Fandango also features a cast of up-and-coming ‘80s actors including Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Elizabeth Daily, and Susy Amis. (Dir. by Kevin Reynolds, 1985, USA, 91 mins., Rated PG).