Red Sands

In the desert outside El Paso stands an aging drive-in movie theater named after the unusual patch of rust-colored sand on which it was built: the Red Sands. Twenty years ago it was a state-of-the-art cinematic oasis; now in the summer of 1982 it's a dilapidated relic host mainly to B-list exploitation movies Friday-night drunks local trailer-trash and a shady cast of employees.</p>But during that same extraordinary summer the Red Sands Drive-In will undergo a brief renaissance brought on partly by the efforts of three 'square peg high-school kids and partly by the release of the popular movie E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial. In the process they will come to know the drive-in's owner whose past holds more than one terrible secret and they'll be drawn into a feud between him and a rival businessman. What follows is more than any of them bargained for including a showdown with a major high-school bully an unofficial 'exorcism on the drive-in itself a blossoming teenage romance or two.and just maybe one teenager's learning to make peace with his mother's death.</P>