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We watched Val Kilmer in two movies over spring break<\/a> (Real Genius<\/em> and Top Gun<\/em>). I read something about his new documentary at that time. I have since watched Tombstone<\/a><\/em>, and when I read another New York Post<\/em> article on the documentary<\/a>, I decided to watch this movie with the boys. After all, it was on Showtime when I was in the trailer park, so I watched it over and over again while I was about their age.<\/p>\nVal Kilmer plays Nick Rivers, a surf rock (known for his hit “Skeet Surfin'”) who gets invited to a cultural festival behind the Iron Curtain and gets involved with the resistance who wants to smuggle a scientist out of the country before he can be forced to help the communists attack the NATO submarine fleet.<\/p>\n
The film had more sexual content than others I’ve watched with the boys–some of it went over their heads, although I would have gotten it at that time, but I was a product of public schools for all of my education and I had a copy of the American Heritage Dictionary<\/em> to look up all the things the other public school kids called me. But the film was also more accessible to them than, say, Airplane!<\/em> or Hot Shots!<\/em>. I dunno, maybe it’s because they saw Von Ryan’s Express<\/em> last year, so they get the behind totalitarian lines thing.<\/p>\n At any rate, I watched this film a year or so back when I got it, so it’s definitely in the class of films I’ll watch over and over again. Just not as often as when I was stuck in a 12′ by 60′ trailer in Murphy, Missouri, with nothing but Showtime to pass the time.<\/p>\n