A lacklustre modern variation on Romeo and Juliet that, despite its title, fails to generate much heat. Craig Sheffer (Brad Pitt's brother in A River Runs Through It) and Virginia Madsen are school students who meet when pupils from a Catholic girls school and a parole camp for ne'er-do-wells get together for a dance night. With their love consummated in the local cemetery, the youngsters just want the world to leave them alone. But soon there are armed police in cars and helicopters on their trail. And this being the mid-Eighties, the action is punctuated by a plethora of rock songs. But the biggest culprit in this tame and predictable tale of young love gone wrong is a script that gives the lead actors little motivation and only glib responses.

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