Lucas (1986) on Netflix
PG-1319861h 40mComedyDramaRomance
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Blye is a target for bullies at his Chicago-area high school. He befriends Maggie, a new girl in town, but she falls for Cappie, the football player who shields him.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.9/1019,053 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes76%
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Plot summary
Lucas Blye is fourteen and lives in a suburb of Chicago. At his high school he is a target of ridicule and abuse from older students. Out collecting insects one day he meets Maggie, a slightly older girl who has just moved to town, and over the summer the two become friends. Cappie Roew, a football player, protects Lucas; he had once joined in tormenting him until Lucas brought his homework to him every day during an illness and kept him from repeating a year. Maggie joins the cheerleading squad because she has a crush on Cappie.
Cast
- Kevin Wixtedas Tonto (as Kevin Gerard Wixted)
- Emily Seltzeras Marie
- Erika Leighas Mary Ellen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lucas (1986)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Lucas gave Courtney Thorne-Smith and Winona Ryder their film debuts, and it was a first for David Seltzer too, who wrote the picture and made his directorial debut with it.
- Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four in the Chicago Sun-Times, and later included it in his list of the top 10 films of 1986.
