Directed by Hal Needham
Starring Bart Conner, Lori Loughlin and Bill Allen
Running time: 1 hour and 31 minutes
MPAA rating: PG for mild profanity, drugs and alcohol

by Nikk Nelson

It’s a Saturday night in Wichita, Kansas, 1989. My parents are heading out to The Night Owl to drink Budweiser, snort coke and play foosball. Five-year-old Nikki needs a babysitter, more than just the TV this time, and the task can’t quite be left to his ten-year-old brother. Enter David Koonzy. I feel like a lot of little brothers had a David Koonzy at some point in their life. He was the surrogate older brother that was actually nice to me. And, he was cool. David didn’t just have his own room, he had his own pad in the basement of his house. He didn’t just have his own TV and VCR in his bedroom, the VCR was in the freakin’ TV. He had all of the best Nintendo games and the best movies and the best music. He called his dad ‘Bob’ and we were pretty sure he was in the mafia. The nights that David Koonzy babysat me are nights that I will never forget. One such occasion, my brother and I walked down the stairs to David’s pad, Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was blaring on the stereo, he already had pizza and Dr. Pepper waiting for us, and we all sat down and watched Rad (1986).