To mark the release of Lionsgate's comedy "New in Town," we've thrown together a list of actors and actresses we remember best as new folks in town
Renee Zellweger in “New In Town”
Ambition can kick you in the butt when you least expect it. Such is a tale about Lucy Hill, an ambitious Miami-based executive who's used to all the spoils of modern-day-life. When the company needs to reorganize, she proudly says ‘I can do it’ to a job in Minnesota and winds up biting off more than she can chew with the bone-chilling cold.
Still, after being introduced to Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.), an unexpected romancemay just blossom if she can just survive long enough.
Michael J. Fox “Doc Hollywood”
En route to LA to take up a great position as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Dr. Ben Stone (Fox) winds up crashing through a fence in the small town of Grady and doing community service whilst the car’s being fixed. Small towns have a way of bringing out the best in you and so does a sexy looking doctor called Lou (Julie Warner). In time, the ‘Doc’ ends up falling in love with his new way of life and the town’s warm inhabitants.
Still fun to watch today as are most of Fox’s classics.
Ralph Macchio in “The Karate Kid”
We had to get this one in here as it’s one of the most memorable new-in-towners around. Macchio starred as Daniel Larusso, a kid who moves to California from New Jersey. He’s in for more than he bargained for when he falls for the Ali (Elisabeth shue), former love of the school’s bad boy karate buff Johnny (William Zabka). After getting the life beaten out of him, he takes karate lessons from Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), a teacher with methods he at first doesn’t understand. Following a training regime including waxing floors, painting fences and attacking waves, he enters a tournament and gets his chance at some payback.
Should be interesting to see the new adaptation starring Will Smith’s son Jaden, but this should never be remade. Another shifty decision by Sony?
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in “Far and Away”
Nicole Kidman is Shannon, a spoiled brat from a wealthy Irish Kristie family who dreams of something more. Joseph Donnelly (Tom Cruise) is out for payback after the Christie’s tax hungry henchman Stephen Chase (Thomas Gibson) burns down the family home. When Joseph’s assassination of attempt on Shannon’s father Daniel (Robert Prosky) goes bad when his rusty rifle backfires, he’s left with facing off against Chase in a pistol match. Shannon rides in and snatches away Joseph as her ‘servant boy’ and whisks him off to America. Here, the duo find themselves in the roughest of neighborhoods, literally fighting for their lives and falling in love. A wonderful journey.
Kevin Bacon in “Footloose”
Probably the ultimate new kid in town film. Beloved by teens of the eighties, “Footloose” is a story of Ren McCormach (Bacon), a city kid in a small town where the pure love of rock music and expression in dance are a forbidden fruit and cursed by Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow).
Ren sparks a romance with Moore’s troubled daughter Ariel (Lori Singer) and an upcoming prom brings out the core of the story with the youngster lifting the sleepy town back on its feet.
No matter how many times you heard the song by Kenny Loggins, you still couldn’t keep those feet from swinging.
