1987 (film)

1987 is a Canadian film, directed by Ricardo Trogi and released in 2014.

Plot

In 1987, 17 year old Ricardo (Jean-Carl Boucher) is graduating high school and facing the usual teen challenges such as making money, trying to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, and getting a car. After Ricardo and his friends fail to get into a bar, he decides to open a discotheque for teenagers under 18. In order to raise the funds, he gets a job as a valet car parker at an Italian restaurant on the night he was supposed to have sex for the first time with his girlfriend. On his first night he accidentally destroys an expensive car and is fired. He is then left without a job and only $30 until one night, he and his friends discover an expensive radio inside a car. They then decide to steal radios and make money from them.

Prom night comes around but Ricardo and his girlfriend get into a huge fight and Ricardo instead goes drinking with his friends. He gets caught drinking and driving with the stolen radios in his trunk. His parents find out and he is grounded. Ricardo's sister then tells him that his girlfriend is at Trois-Rivières, 137 kilometers away. The movie ends with Ricardo riding his bike as he says by voiceover "People didn't believe me when I said that I rode 137 kilometers on bike to just meet up with my girlfriend at Trois-Rivières. We eventually did it and we stayed together for three more years. In my first year of college, there was no more room for les sciences humaines so I took a class in filmmaking just for fun."

Reception

The film was met with positive reviews from local Montreal journals and received a 7.5/10 score on IMDb.

Release

The film was released in theaters in the summer of 2014 and released on DVD, Blu-ray, and limited edition VHS in December 2014.