Vision Quest (1985)

A high school student who is a Greco-Roman wrestler for his school aims to compete for the championship in a smaller weight category, which will require him to fight an extremely difficult opponent. Concurrently he falls in love with an older woman.

Just another irrelevant instance of the teenage-competition-with-a-philosophical-message-and-some-romance-to-boot film.

Rating: 26

Note: The philosophical message which is spoken at the film's end sent me into a state of shock, not because of the message in itself, which is cute, but because I instantly recognized the words as almost exactly the same ones in a Brazilian song which was released in 1989 by the band Legião Urbana in their album As Quatro Estações and was very popular in Brazil. Compare:

Words in the movie: "And I guess that's why we ought to love those people who deserve it like there's no tomorrow -- 'cause when you get right down to it, there isn't." (note: the screenplay is by Darryl Ponicsan, based on a novel by Terry Davis)

Words from the song Pais e Filhos (credited authors: Dado Villa-Lobos, Renato Russo and Marcelo Bonfá): "É preciso amar as pessoas como se não houvesse amanhã -- porque se você parar pra pensar, na verdade não há."

A further curiosity: in the song "Índios", by Renato Russo, issued in Legião Urbana's album "Dois", the verse "o futuro não é mais como era antigamente" was, as far as I know, originally a boutade by Paul Valéry ("Même l'avenir n'est plus ce qu'il était."), and was, later than Valéry but earlier than Russo, heard from the mouth of Yogi Berra ("The future isn't what it used to be.").