Stef dreams of becoming an engineer, and he has a sweetheart named Lisa (Lea Thompson) who wants to be a musician.
There's nothing to do in Ampipe but drink, weld and root for the local football team. Ampipe is so dismal that when when a friend of Stef's is forced to marry his cheerleader girlfriend, the newlyweds go to Pittsburgh for their honeymoon. Stef's father and brother already work in the local steel mill, American Pipe and Steel, from which the town - Ampipe - takes its name. ''All The Right Moves,'' which opens today at the Criterion Center and other theaters, is about Stef Djordjevic (Tom Cruise), a clean-cut young hero in a bleak little town. The bluer the collar of such a young man, the more miraculous the payoff he will eventually receive - or at least that's the current Hollywood logic. It concerns a nice boy who wants to ''be somebody,'' the athletic career that he hopes will bring him a college scholarship and the Pennsylvania steel- mill town from which he's determined to escape. The latest example of this is ''All the Right Moves,'' a well-made but sugar-coated working-class fable about a football star. It may center on sheer ambition, which is shown to lead inexorably, even automatically, to glory. TODAY'S version of the Horatio Alger story doesn't necessarily involve hard work.
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