No Big Deal [DVD]

This movie is so bad it's good! I purchased it for a mere pound and this movie has everything you'd expect from a budget DVD! I'm actually remaking my own version and putting it on the tube. So check it out!Kevin Dillon's performance as a street wise jail bird is hard to beat with some real tough one liners (the classic 'No Big Deal' being used 8 times). But Christopher Gartin is the star of this one with his camp performance as Michael, a soft and friendly effeminate boy who wants to believe that rebelious Arnold (Dillon) can fix his lawless ways.Bruce Keller is a favourite as the ruthless hunky bully, five stars for that performance!Over all there's no particular plot. The ending was a little disappointing but for seriously bad acting and 80's throwback fashion, it's worth it's weight in gold.

No Big Deal is an unpretentious film that strongly evokes the early eighties, and has a conclusion of surprising subtlety. Arnold is just out of a juvenile detention centre and joins the local Junior High where he finds himself among rich kids in the ninth grade, although he is one year older. Blessed with an innate intelligence and wit he impresses everyone, desperate to keep up appearances, while his good looks win the girls' hearts ... The three main boys Michael, Warren, and Harry, are enlisted by the temporary teacher Miss Karnisian to go out with him and help him make the transition, and he proves problematic for all of them, most particularly Michael. The film shows the very real problems a boy in his position can face, and gives a rounded picture of both him and Arnold. It is all the more effective for being so simple, in many ways, showing scenes variously at home and school, with varying parental attitudes to the unknown quantity that is Arnold. You never really feel you can predict how he will turn out. When Miss Karnisian is going to leave at the end of the year they club together to buy her a present, entrusting Arnold with the money ...The film is good for its period feel and would make an excellent teaching tool, even if modern teenagers would laugh at some aspects of it. It is amazing how much the world has changed since then, when there were no mobiles or smartphones, no laptops etc. Kevin Dillon takes the lead and smoulders in a way that suggests a young Brando-like figure as much as his brother Matt, who went on to be more famous. Kevin has a remarkable combination of features, with thick lips and a very short nose which contrasts with his lithe physique. Christopher Gartin, who plays Michael, is just as good at conveying the confusion of his character. The whole thing has a freewheeling charm with cycling down leafy roads and school in the summer term, with Arnold in his coffee and cream singlet and the girls worrying about their prom outfits and whether they look too fat ... Its naivety is beguiling and it is a poignant reminder of a lost world, with, as I say, a conclusion almost worthy of Eric Rohmer.

The dvd arrived in good shape and it plays well.

Funny movie. So '80s and kitchy. Is like an after-school special of days past. Stacy Lauren-Kon is adorable -- whatever happened to her ;-)

This video was in good condition and was packaged well. I have been showing this video to my classes at school and it is quite cheesy. It does have a good message to be kind to those who are mean to you and to do what is right, even when you have an excuse to be mad.