CATHOLIC BOYS (1984)

MICHAEL DINNER

Comedy Coming of Age Religion 1960s Recommended

Cast

ANDREW MCCARTHY MARY STUART MASTERSON KEVIN DILLON MALCOLM DANARE KATE REID WALLACE SHAWN JOHN HEARD DONALD SUTHERLAND

Plot

A superior rites-of-passage comedy, set in Brooklyn. Michael (Andrew McCarthy) arrives at St Basil's Catholic School for Boys in 1965, and is soon up to his neck in all the usual adolescent agonies - girls, booze and sex (or lack of it), all of which are violently discouraged by the Brethren. Refreshingly non-cheesey nostalgia, with some excellent early performances from the young cast.