...watching Firestarter

Drew Barrymore when she
was getting into drugs and booze

The other day I rewatched an old favorite of mine that I hadn't seen in years. The film stars a very young Drew Barrymore in the main role of Charlie - a child with fearsome powers of the mind!
It is based on the book of the same name by Stephen King and features some of the staples of King's early writings such as: psychic children, girl with a boy's name, a native americans spouting dubious words of wisdom and a clandestine government agency called The Shop, that everyone seems to know about despite it being so secret.

So here are the lessons learned from this 1984 classic:

• Pyrokinesis messes with your hair
• George C. Scott says creepy things
• Nurse Ratched is married to a really, really old dude
• Trucker caps are not for the elderly
• David Keith looks better now than he did 25 years ago with a mullett
• Being blind is painful
• Heather Locklear is so hot her hands catches on fire
• Little kids are dumb as rocks
• When doing jedi mindtricks you have to put your fingers in your hair
• Silver burn suits are great for hiding in forests
• Grown men are as easy to knock down with tranquilizer darts as 40 pound 8 year olds
• Fire effects look cool
• President Josiah Bartlett was a prick in the 80s
• “The Shop” is a dumb name for anything that isn’t a shop
• Government agents wore grey suits in the 80s 
• “Necromancer” means wizard or something 
• If your feet are on fire, find the nearest restroom
• Moses Gunn is a pretty cool name

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