License To Drive | Cinema

12 June 2023 Redazione Lifestyle, News

Les is sixteen year young finally ready for the driving test. In the same week of the big day he finally manages to get a date from the girl of his dreams. What could possibly go wrong? Everything and I mean everything. Driving License is a late 80s comedy centered on the young protagonist Les and the daring adventures unleashed by his failure in the driving test. Without revealing too much, it’s really a matter of moments before you connect with Corey Haim’s extremely funny performance and get drawn into the bizarre situations experienced with the beautiful Mercedes (Heather Graham), his parents and best friends.

TITLE: License To Drive

YEAR: 1988

DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

LENGHT: 1h 29 min

GENRE: comedy

A driving license is a valuable tool. Synonymous with freedom and a shortcut to having fun and making your dreams come true, imagine what a kid who has just passed his driving test would be willing to do with that piece of paper. Things didn’t necessarily go in this order for Les and that’s how the 90 minutes of Driving License make us laugh thanks to the situations in which the protagonist and his friends find themselves. The film begins with a dream and a Ferrari 308 GTS, but soon gives way to the real star on wheels, the grandfather’s ’72 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, left on loan in presumed good hands. Despite the temporal differences, Driving License winks at the TV series Happy Days and it is thanks to this winning formula of good but clumsy guys that it is entertaining from start to finish, even without pretensions to realism or storyline perfection.

Edited by Tommaso Mogge