When your mother looks like one of the Nolan sisters, and your dad's a complete wet-wipe, you know you've got problems. And when 17-year old Isabelle (same name as the actress who plays her, natch) finds out her new activist friends are about to blow up a nuclear power plant, her life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. Who said teenage years were easy?
Unfinished Business is a pretty obscure find I watched on YouTube, featuring the Cold War paranoia that stretched as far as Canada back in the Reagan-era days of 1984. None (as far as I'm aware) of the Canuck cast went onto achieve great things in international cinema, and the whole predictable plot has a distinct whiff of 'Back To School Special' about it (Don't run away from home on a whim, Always listen to your parents, Don't do drugs, Eat your greens etc.).
Still, it has mostly good performances, and an amiable 80's charm that perseveres throughout. Even if it's over-earnestness can be grating sometimes, you can always play 'check out that bad hairdo or fashion choice'. Or just kick back and listen to that rocking soundtrack... in fact, that might be asking too much. *Puts earplugs in lugholes*. 5/10.
Unfinished Business is a pretty obscure find I watched on YouTube, featuring the Cold War paranoia that stretched as far as Canada back in the Reagan-era days of 1984. None (as far as I'm aware) of the Canuck cast went onto achieve great things in international cinema, and the whole predictable plot has a distinct whiff of 'Back To School Special' about it (Don't run away from home on a whim, Always listen to your parents, Don't do drugs, Eat your greens etc.).
Still, it has mostly good performances, and an amiable 80's charm that perseveres throughout. Even if it's over-earnestness can be grating sometimes, you can always play 'check out that bad hairdo or fashion choice'. Or just kick back and listen to that rocking soundtrack... in fact, that might be asking too much. *Puts earplugs in lugholes*. 5/10.
