TY - SER
KW - Italian Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
KW - musicians
KW - football
KW - marching bands
KW - steel industry
KW - police
KW - Black Americans
AU - Michael Kane
AB - In fictitious Ampipe, a dying mill town, high school football star Stefen Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) strives to earn an athletic scholarship to dodge a dead-end career as a steelworker. His girlfriend (Lea Thompson) and his bullheaded coach (Craig T. Nelson) both clash over Stefan and his American dream.  <em>New York Times</em> critic Janet Maslin writes, “There’s nothing to do in Ampipe but drink, weld, and root for the local football team. Stef dreams of becoming an engineer, and he has a sweetheart . . . For the time being, they must content themselves, respectively, with the football team and the high school band.”
C1 - 1980s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County, Pittsburgh; Beaver County; Ambridge
C4 - Sports; Coming-of-Age; Romance
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - <p>Based on a story by Pat Jordan (1941-&nbsp;).<br /><br />Ambridge is disguised as Ampipe.<br /><br />Filming locations included Pittsburgh and Cambria County&#39;s Johnstown and East Conemaugh.</p>
N2 - In fictitious Ampipe, a dying mill town, high school football star Stefen Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) strives to earn an athletic scholarship to dodge a dead-end career as a steelworker. His girlfriend (Lea Thompson) and his bullheaded coach (Craig T. Nelson) both clash over Stefan and his American dream.  <em>New York Times</em> critic Janet Maslin writes, “There’s nothing to do in Ampipe but drink, weld, and root for the local football team. Stef dreams of becoming an engineer, and he has a sweetheart . . . For the time being, they must content themselves, respectively, with the football team and the high school band.”
PY - 1983
RN - Michael Kane is a screenwriter whose other works include <em>The Legend of the Lone Ranger</em> and <em>The Bear</em>, a biopic about college football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant.
TI - All the Right Moves
ER -