Take Me Home Tonight online
What do you say about a coming-of-age movie set in 1988, shot in 2007 and just now released? I mean, besides WTF? For starters, I'd say Take Me Home Tonight has just enough heart and retro party spirit to hold the line before familiarity breeds contempt.
Peter Travers reviews Take Me Home Tonight in his weekly video series, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
Producer-star Topher Grace, moving up a decade from That '70s Show, plays Matt Franklin, an MIT grad working at Suncoast Video while deciding what to do with his life. The decision? Party hearty. In a Mercedes stolen by his pal Barry Dan Fogler, Matt hits a Labor Day blowout filled with blow(the drug use delayed the R-rated film's release. He's invited by unrequited high school crush Tori Frederking Teresa Palmer, now an investment banker, who's impressed when Matt lies that he's a rising star at Goldman Sachs.
