New Port South - A Review

The John Hughes Files
September 9, 2001
Alexander Rubinow's Opinion

I saw it in Northbrook at a saturday night showing at 7:05,....i dragged my mom to it cuz i don't have any friends that live around here any more, and myself and her were the only two people in the theater. i think it will be pulled come this thursday. The only john hughes connection to it was that it was filmed in illinois, it took place in a high school, and one of the character's (a girl) was named Kameron. Other than that, i didn't care for the music that was written by John Hughes III, and The final scene made no sense, i mean it was really out of character the way the rest of the trajectory of the film went. Other character's seemed out of place. And while it did present a girl named amanda (amanda jones of SKOW), and rebellious youth, and some people i had seen on the Second City stage in Chicago in the past year or two, it is not the john hughes i know and love. Only the Lonely was a much finer picture (as far as Hughes produced pictures go). This film was cold and bleak, and although i expected another reach the rock (and i was happy that it was not as poorly done), hughes needs to wisen up, and go back to 1991, and then go back some more, and realise that the pictures he made between 1982 and 1991 were much finer than anything he wrote for disney or the sequals to home alone, or even that lousy excuse..just visiting. i'm dissapointed. that's all. i want him to come out of his slump, but i am not sure he will.

anyhow, those are my thoughts.
publish them if you want.
this movie was a dissapointment.

-Alexander

PS, disney didn't advertise because they knew it was not worth the money to advertise. and all the theaters misspelled it as Newport South, when it is clearly written on the poster and on all the shirts in the film as New Port South.