babe_million Back in the day, Rob Lowe was devoid of talent (as were many of the notorious Brat Pack members) but had that certain something that made people (mostly teens) want more. He was a very marketable commodity at the time, so what better role to give him than something that has already been done (i.e. little money spent writing, pre-production as possible before his fame expires as we all remember it did in the form of a threesome with two underage girls).He can't act like Meryl Streep but he can deliver lines adequately and professionally; he is not so horrible that it is not watchable, and the story line is cute. Overall not an oscar winner but watchable. Some of his Brat Pack friends had big hits with their solo movies such as Ally Sheedy in Short Circuit, Emilio Estevez in Young Guns, etc.

trickrider What most impresses me about this movie and a few others from the 80'slike Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire is how they lack all the brash,rude and obnoxiousness found in movies today! The young generation ofthat time ( and every young person has thier time) didn't fill thescreen with crude language and remarks degrading to each other. In thismovie they still had enough good sense to not curse like uneducatedheathens! Seems like all the movies today just seem to fill the screen with oneF**k and a$$hole and sheeet and every other imaginable word you coulduse just to see how many they can say in 90 minutes! It surely is a time gone by and perhaps we do live in a world that ismore realistic and streetwise, but it sure isn't going to make the worlda better place throwing obsceneties it in our face all the time! Oxford Blues was refreshing because it had some class even though it wasa simple plot and a simple movie. And Rob Lowe was one heck of a goodlooking

greenie OK. I know that the wanna-be John Hughes movies of the 80s were all unilaterally flat, so the expectations for this film ran pretty low.Still, after sitting through this crap there's one key thing I can't seem to get out of my head:I just sat through an 80s Rob Lowe movie that had no nudity and only hints of sex in them.The acting is awful, the characters boring and flat, the portrayal of Oxford an absolute insult, and the rowing scenes unexciting, uneventful, and inaccurate.Unless you've got some wierd Ally Sheedy or Amanda Pays (or I guess, Rob Lowe) fetish, there's really no reason to see this one.

Coxer99 Lowe struts his stuff as an egotistical American who finagles his way into the prestigious British university. School is tossed aside for women, crew and fun. Hardly believable and entertaining. Lowe is way too upstaged by young Brits Pays, Sands and Payne.