Johnny Be Good

Johnny Be Good is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Bud Smith, starring Anthony Michael Hall as the main character, Johnny Walker. The film also features Robert Downey Jr., Paul Gleason, Steve James, Jennifer Tilly and Uma Thurman. Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon makes a cameo appearance.

Johnny Walker Hall is the top high school quarterback prospect who is heavily recruited by many schools. His best friend, Leo Wiggins Downey, thinks he should hold out for the best offer. His girlfriend, Georgia Thurman, wants him to go to State with her and get a solid education. The colleges offer him everything he could possibly want girls, cars, cash, free room and board, etc. One school even buys Leo a car, while another offers to provide him with male companions if he isnt interested in women. His coach, Wayne Hisler Gleason, who he really cant stand, even tries to sell him out by striking a deal with one of the interested colleges to become their next head coach. Although he has all the skills a coach would want in a quarterback, he is unsure where he wants to go and is tempted by the offers because of all of the praise and attention. His recruitment is followed closely by a recruiting investigator Downey, Sr. who is trying to make sure everything is on the up and up. Although Johnny lives with his mother, grandfather, younger brother and sister, he is offered everything and anything by every interested college except for the local state college, which is where he ends up going when he uses his moral compass to make the decision.The film was filmed, in part, in Georgetown, Texas and at Thomas Jefferson High School and Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio. The scene near the end of the film in which Anthony Michael Hall runs down a corridor, was filmed at San Antonios St. Marys University. One scene was filmed in New Braunfels, Texas at Kenos Drive Inn grocery and bait store. ........

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