After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Directed by Harold Becker
high school
sports
wrestling
wrestler
pizza
coach
coming of age
love
brief
wrestling team
homoerotic
melodramatic
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IMDB
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Letterboxd
3.3 / 5
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Cast
Matthew Modine
Louden Swain
Linda Fiorentino
Carla
Ronny Cox
Larry Swain
Daphne Zuniga
Margie Epstein
Charles Hallahan
The Coach
Michael Schoeffling
Kuch
Harold Sylvester
Gene Tanneran
J.C. Quinn
Elmo
Madonna
Singer
Forest Whitaker
Balldozer
Gary Kasper
Otto
R.H. Thomson
Kevin
Crew
Harold Becker
Director
Darryl Ponicsan
Screenplay
Edgar Froese
Original Music Composer
Christopher Franke
Original Music Composer
Owen Roizman
Director of Photography
Jon Peters
Producer
Peter Guber
Producer
Nancy Klopper
Casting
Gordon Daniel
Supervising Sound Editor
Madonna
Songs
Popular Reviews
43 reviews
e blackmon
3.0★ · 02/05/26
the entire romance plot is so unforgivable and egregiously bad and takes up such an unbelievable amount of the runtime that it’s genuinely a disservice to how well done the wrestling scenes are
also this has more training montages than anything i’ve ever seen
the entire romance plot is so unforgivable and egregiously bad and takes up such an unbelievable amount of the runtime that it’s genuinely a disservice to how well done the wrestling scenes are
also this has more training montages than anything i’ve ever seen
Cael R
4.0★ · 12/17/25
Look away and peel Dont reach back Set up your shot Stay active on bottom Kids got alot to work on 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Look away and peel Dont reach back Set up your shot Stay active on bottom Kids got alot to work on 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Lan
like came home high and my dad was like “let’s watch vision quest” and then watched sweaty wrestlers for 90 minutes. lowkey how was this not considered homoerotic in the 80s ljke they the boys here are wearing crop tops and short shorts. i wish real high school wrestlers looked like that but it’s ok ig. loved whoever played carla bc she’s bad but also like i felt so scammed i thought it was gojng to be one of those old boy friendship movies.
like came home high and my dad was like “let’s watch vision quest” and then watched sweaty wrestlers for 90 minutes. lowkey how was this not considered homoerotic in the 80s ljke they the boys here are wearing crop tops and short shorts. i wish real high school wrestlers looked like that but it’s ok ig. loved whoever played carla bc she’s bad but also like i felt so scammed i thought it was gojng to be one of those old boy friendship movies.
