![]() ![]() Even after his Vigil time-frame is over, Jerry still refuses to sell the chocolates. Then something in Jerry snaps, almost audibly. He’s seen as a nut, then a menace, then as a symbol. Trinity’s routinely accepts his quota of chocolates, Jerry’s orders are to refuse then, after the Vigil-created ban is over, to agree to take his 50 boxes.Įven in the face of Brother Leon’s most sardonic “persuasion”-a masterly display of bullying in which the priest’s cobra-quick changes of logic and mood terrorize the entire class-Jerry holds fast. Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), a smallish freshman whose tenacity at the football tryout catches Archie’s eye, receives one of these assignments. It’s an almost surreal scene that reminds you of one of those “angels come to earth” sequences however the manipulative Archie and the covertly ambitious Obie are anything but angels. As the film opens, a pair of the club’s officers, Archie (Wally Ward) and his assistant Obie (Doug Hutchison) sit alone above the football field, picking boys for Vigil “assignments,” excruciating secret tests of loyalty or stamina. To cement his position as the acting chief administrator, he has come up with an unprecedented quota for the annual chocolate sale: The boys will have to sell twice as many chocolates at double the price of last year.Īlmost equal in power to Brother Leon are the Vigils, the secret school club. ![]() Trinity’s, one of the hubs of this Northwestern city, but he’s palpably close and hotly ambitious for the job. Brother Leon (John Glover, splendidly malevolent), is not yet head of St. ![]()
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