Light of Day (1987)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
"Music is all that matters. One hour on stage makes up for the other 23."
The Wives Colangelo are heading back to the Midwest for a trip, so it's only fitting that they'd cover an underrated shot-in-Cleveland story starring Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox about a pair of musical siblings trying to find their places in the world. Directed by Paul Schrader and featuring music by Bruce Springsteen, LIGHT OF DAY is an odd little slice of life in the Rust Belt that might be more interesting to talk about than it is to actually watch.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. A coming of age podcast highlighting |
| 0:06.9 | cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. I'm one of your hosts, B.J. Calangelo, and I'm joined |
| 0:13.4 | by my wife. Harmony Calangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. Is today's |
| 0:19.3 | movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:22.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.9 | Get in loser. |
| 0:25.5 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:27.5 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:31.4 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:34.6 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:38.4 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard For the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | But I |
| 0:43.3 | Realize |
| 0:48.3 | That I |
| 0:50.3 | Probably won't |
| 0:53.3 | Be so fucking probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | I never got to be a teenager, but I can't imagine somebody. |
| 1:10.0 | But I can't imagine somebody who looked like Joan Jett |
| 1:14.1 | would have this heart of a life. |
| 1:16.5 | Very true. |
| 1:19.6 | Listen, come on, it's Joan Jett. |
| 1:22.9 | We all know what Joan Jett looks like. |
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