The producers could easily have turned movie this into a music video. The music was fantastic.The plot is a tiny bit old, but still I enjoyed it. The music aligns well with the plot as we hear Kim Wilde, Inxs, and others.This is a story of a love triangle in a one industry town. The one industry is the steel mill. A violent and rebellious outcast who wants to leave town and the popular and rich son of a steel mill executive, both want the same beautiful cheerleader, Tracy Prescott. If you watch the movie close you know which one Tracy should align with. After the two boys finally clash, right on cue with the start of "Roll Me Away", by Bob Seeger, one of them wins Tracy's heart.

I was still in Junior High when I saw this movie so it was kinda risqué to me. I thought Aidan Quinn was beautiful, especially in the shower scene! And I was already a fan of Daryl Hannah from Splash. I like the whole wrong side of the tracks love story idea. I felt bad that no one liked Johnny just cause he was poor and had a bad homelife. He was a really nice guy and he loved Tracy. The sex scenes were very good and very realistic. Daryl Hannah is one lucky girl to have gotten to play those scenes. The soundtrack is great and I wish I could purchase it. The "Kids in America" scene is awesome and ends with Tracy and Johnny in a pool. But the best scene is at the end when they play Bob Segers "Roll Me Away". I love that song!

I saw this film originally on USA and finally found it used for $5 in it's original box, original price on box $85. When I saw it I could totally relate to wanting to get out of a town where the local industry had become a dinosaur. The soundtrack is great! Aiden gives a great performance and it was filmed nearby. As the other comments said, it IS classic 80's bad boy/good girl stuff but with a little more edge and reality than "Valley Girl" or "Some Kind of Wonderful" The Bob Seger doesn't exactly fit with the other new wave music in the film but it works great. There were so many times I wish I would have done what Rourke did at the dance. I attended a high school that was 99% white and all our dances had funk & early rap, no good for a 16 year old with an attitude but I'm over it, no really, I am.Where is Johnny Rourke today?

The drawing card of "Reckless" in 1984 was in seeing its sexy young stars sans clothes. What...you thought it was the plot? The script is a relentless rip-off of every teen-angst drama from "Rebel Without A Cause" on down. Misunderstood high schooler (Aidan Quinn), whose brooding manner derives from an unhappy home and has alienated him at school, falls for the class sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), who is unhappy but doesn't know it yet. Yes, we get to see Quinn and Hannah partly nude, but their characters are clichés, as are the roles played by Kenneth McMillain (Quinn's surly pop) and Cliff De Young (overdoing it as an unsympathetic coach). Lots of gritty, industrial-town atmospherics, fine '80's rock on the soundtrack, but the leads don't act or speak like high schoolers--and Quinn looks far too old to still be cracking the books. ** from ****