That Was Then... This Is Now (1985) on Netflix
Mark Jennings is a delinquent teenager whose only link to society is his attachment to a brother-figure, Bryon Douglas. Bryon's new girlfriend Cathy Carlson leaves Mark feeling left out.
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Plot summary
Mark Jennings is a delinquent teenager, and his only link to society is his attachment to Bryon Douglas, an older boy he looks on as a brother. Bryon starts dating Cathy Carlson and begins to act more responsibly. Mark feels left out and more alienated, and without Bryon's stabilizing influence he starts acting out and dealing drugs. Charlie Woods is a mentor to the two friends.
Cast
- Matthew Dudleyas Curly Shepard
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)
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- Emilio Estevez rewrote the screenplay for the film during the making of The Breakfast Club, staying up all night to write after the typical 12-hour filming day.
- Shot in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the summer of 1984 without a distributor, the film was later advertised as "the first Minnesota movie".
- Martin Sheen recommended his son Emilio Estevez play Bryon Douglas, but Estevez, wary of being typecast, chose the "sympathetic bad guy" role instead.
- While filming the 1982 adaptation of S. E. Hinton's Tex, Emilio Estevez read That Was Then, This Is Now and liked it so much he drafted several screenplays of it before purchasing the rights.
