Remember this one? Jeffrey Speicher might be just a little too "breathless" in his praise, but he makes a reasonable case for BAD INFLUENCE being worth a rewatch...

Left unsaid in the article is the sobering fact that Rob Lowe turned sixty earlier this year, and James Spader is even older. With the "brat pack" in line to collect Social Security, what is left for the rest of us?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/rob-lowe-and-james-spader-broke-out-of-the-brat-pack-with-this-dark-90s-thriller/ar-BB1onRwn?item=module_ad_enabled%3Afalse

Rob Lowe's comments on the film: "It was a little company that released it, it was really ahead of its time... I'm really proud of it. And it's Curtis Hanson. He'd directed a small movie before that, but it was his first directorial work that really worked. Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign. It's [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies And Videotape.
It's sexy. It's weird. It's dark. The characters are great. It was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at the time, and Steve Tisch--now the owner of the New York Giants--found it, loved it, and together we put it together. The soundtrack was really weird. You know, it's also a great snapshot of underground LA at the beginning of the '90s. And yet it doesn't feel dated. But I'd say that would be the one I'd tell people to go and look at if they haven't seen it."