The Same Year As ‘Platoon,’ Charlie Sheen Showed His Heartwarming Side in This 76% RT Coming-of-Age Gem

For 40-plus years, Charlie Sheen has earned the reputation of an entertainment industry bad boy. From the moment audiences took notice of his brief appearance as a teen troublemaker hooking up with the title character’s sister in 1986’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sheen’s career has been a mix between street-tough rulebreakers, glorified womanizers, and the occasional self-deprecatory walking parody. However, in the same year that Ferris Bueller and Platoon made him a household name, the controversial actor whose life story is now told in the latest Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen, subverted the popular jock stereotype in David Seltzer’s high school drama Lucas.