The year is 1984, Kerri announce to her family that she isn't going to the camp, she's going to the city and go on auditions, and she did. She went on a audition for a movie called The Goonies, they where looking for kids in the ages of fourteen to eighteen.
The plot:
The Goonies, a tightly-knit band of neighborhood friends are breaking up. With greedy developers about to raze their area, this feisty group of under-privileged kids - whose housing project is about to be destroyed are spending one last adventure-filled, drizzly Saturday morning together. This happens after they find an authentic 17th-century pirate map - and begin a dazzling, day-long quest for a treasure rich enough to save their homes. They enter a subterranean world filled with caverns, crooks, skeletons, booby-traps, a once-mighty pirate ship and a milquetoast of a monster with swivel piglet ears and a face only Frankenstin could love.
The Goonies is very special to me because I saw it for the first time when I was very young and the these adventures movies from the 80's did big impressions on me. When I watch The Goonies today those fellings comes back to me and it gets very nostalgic. When I saw it for the first time I didn't notice Kerri that much, that came sevral years later. This movie is one of my favorite fliks no doubt. The story is briliant, the kids are great (but sooo loud) and the score music is truely amazing. I did have plans to visit Astoria in Oregon, where the movie was shoted. And see all those places from the movie, like: Mikey's house, the jail, the museum, Canon beach and so on. But that on ice right now, i got my mind on other things right now but i will go there sometime, someday that i'm sure of. The Goonies house was in fact for sale last year or two years ago...i don't recall. I'm sure the price was a bit high, tho.
Astoria got a webpage, click on the link to get there:
Astoria Oregon
Kerri got the part as Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, the cut cheerleader who follow the Goonies on the hunt for One-eyed Willy's treasure. People discribes her role as either scared or exited. In the begining of the movie, she's together with Troy - a real jerk, but eventually she gives him up for Brandon - one of the Goonies. The Goonies was her movie debut and she had her eighteenth birtday on the set of this movie. I like the character Andy and of course she is a cheerleader(and that doesn't change a thing!). I think a lot of people think of Kerri when they think of cheerleaders. She also played a cheerleader in Lucas (actually she was a cheerleader in real life too).
There's one scene in The Goonies that I consider Kerri's scene. It's the one down in the caves when The Goon kids comes to a big piano made of bones. Andy played piano when she was four years old, so she gets to try. If she plays the wrong tones the floor starts to collapse, it's a very exiting scene.
