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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled as a “has been” by the early 90s to being virtually homeless before he was thirty. Find out what happened to Dan’s onetime favorite actor in this tragic (and fascinating) edition of Timesuck!

Transcript

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1987, the lost boys grossed over $32 million at the box office on a budget less than

0:06.2

nine million.

0:07.8

Launched a little-known Canadian actor Corey Hame, who had starred in the critically-acclaimed

0:11.7

1986 film Lucas, had a role in the 1975's Murphy's Romance, James Garner, Sally Fields,

0:17.8

box office success that was nominated for two Academy Awards.

0:21.2

Done a few smaller films earlier.

0:23.3

Now he's a teen icon, household name.

0:26.6

The beginning of a lifelong association with fellow child star Corey Feldman, 1988.

0:32.6

Two Corey started a license to drive.

0:34.6

Another $8 million, $89 million movie makes $22 million of the box office.

0:40.0

1989, starring the wildly unsuccessful horror film The Watchers.

0:44.8

Star was Feldman again in the critically-panned box office failure dream a little dream.

0:48.7

And by 1990, at only 18 years of age, began appearing straight to DVD universally unwatched

0:54.8

movies like Tale of the Rollerboys and Double-O Kid before dying of a prescription overdose,

1:00.3

broke and living with his mom in a small Burbank apartment at the age of 38 after many years

1:06.6

of obscurity.

1:08.2

The last years of the last boy on this sometimes sad, sometimes funny, hopefully always entertaining

1:14.4

episode of Time Suck.

1:17.0

Suckin' some time!

1:18.7

Let's get into the last boys.

1:30.3

Last boys I first remember seeing Corey Hayme and last boys, one of the first horror movies

1:34.3

I ever watched.

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