And I think the people that haven't seen it that judge it are horribly wrong. Club, "It's an innocent movie, it's got innocent messages, and it's got some very, very deep messages.
We wanted to make a funny movie that had a message about racism," Howell told The Hollywood Reporter. Thomas Howell also addressed the controversy. While many of Howell's co-stars went on to become Oscar winners and nominees, starring in critical and commercially successful films, he never achieved the same level of fame, and his role in a controversial comedy effectively derailed his promising film career.Ĭ. Howell also played a sexy scamp trying to land the girl of his dreams in 1985's teen sex comedy "Secret Admirer" and a motorist on the run from a murderous drifter in 1986's "The Hitcher." Perhaps, Howell's most widely seen and enduring film is 1984's "Red Dawn," which followed a group of Midwestern teenagers in the aftermath of a Soviet attack on the U.S. He reteamed with Swayze for 1984's "Grandview, U.S.A.," which also features scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis, siblings John and Joan Cusack, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Thomas Howell appeared in some beloved '80s cult classics, starring opposite a veritable who's who of Hollywood A-listers. Hinton novel "The Outsiders," whose ensemble cast featured future Hollywood superstars Diane Lane, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Ralph Macchio.Ĭ.
Howell played sensitive "greaser" Ponyboy Curtis in director Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 big-screen adaptation of the S.E. the Extra-Terrestrial," He quickly transitioned from supporting actor to leading man.
Howell made his feature film debut in Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster "E.T. Thomas Howell was a teen heartthrob and successful movie star.
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