Movie: The Goonies (1985)

“Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood — unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that’s quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed “One-Eyed” Willy’s hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence “Chunk” Cohen, Clark “Mouth” Devereaux, Andrea “Andy” Carmichael, Stefanie “Stef” Steinbrenner, and Richard “Data” Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney “Sloth” Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them. Written by Todd Baldridge”

  • Director: Richard Donner
  • Release Date: 7 June 1985 (USA)
  • Run Time: 114 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Family , Mystery

Tagline: They call themselves “The Goonies.” The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden treasure. And Sloth… Join the adventure.

Trivia: Production Designer J. Michael Riva said in a National Public Radio interview that before shooting the first scenes with the prop map, he thought that it looked good but not old enough, so in his hotel room, he aged it with coffee and (when he couldn’t find paint) his own blood.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Troy’s father and his associate are there to drop off the foreclosure paperwork, it sounds like it’s raining and they’re both holding umbrellas. However, when Brandon walks down the sidewalk to them to pick up the paperwork, you can clearly see that their umbrellas aren’t wet. Nor is the car behind them, and neither Brandon or the paperwork gets wet.

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