You couldn’t make The Goonies today.
Not because of updated cultural mores, stricter child labor laws, or expansive operational expenses for productions with elaborate set pieces. You couldn’t make The Goonies, a film released in the summer of 1985 between Fletch and Cocoon, because in 2024 it simply doesn’t make any sense. The central social context of …
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