the first time i saw this film and i be utterly take with it . my folk run a restaurant which become a hangout for the kid of the mid to late fifty and early sixty . it wasn not a drive in and but it become a place for much of what go on in this movie . we be in a small town and so there be urban element that do not apply . but there be cruise . there be fight . there be tough guy . i remember john steinke who spend his saturday evening shoot up people mailbox with his . 22. most of the kid be normal kid . some portrayal of the fifty make it seem like everyone have a leather jacket and a duck tail haircut . these be just a small percentage . most postured and prance around like the kid we have today . different time while same basic behavior . i love the mythos . the girl in the white car . the average joe ( richard dreyfus ) . the nerd . the girl friend who you think would be your love forever . the scary future . it all here . then there be that midnight journey and that quest . wolfman jack and whose career be really make big by this film . the police and who be understandably obsess with these hood and what they do . it a lot of fun . i do not know why and however and this film do not wash quite as well the last time i saw it . be it too many happy day episode . be it less relevant now . have we no innocence . i just do not feel the magic . or be it that i be so much close to the age of the character when i saw it the first time . it still a landmark film . the cinematography be strike . see it if you haven not .