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Valley Girl (1983)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:20
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: With engaging performances from its two leads, Valley Girl is a goofy yet amiable film that both subverts and celebrates the cheerful superficiality of teen comedies.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It's a "totally tubular" scene as a "grody-to-the-max" punk from the wrong side of the Hollywood Hills, Randy (Nicolas Cage), falls for Julie (Deborah Foreman), a mall-dwelling Valley Girl, in this... It's a "totally tubular" scene as a "grody-to-the-max" punk from the wrong side of the Hollywood Hills, Randy (Nicolas Cage), falls for Julie (Deborah Foreman), a mall-dwelling Valley Girl, in this time capsule of 1980s teen vernacular. Julie and Randy become passionately involved; yet, despite her feelings for Randy, Julie succumbs to the peer pressure of her mall-obsessed friends, and gets back together with her Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), who whisks Julie off to the Senior prom. Randy doesn't give up so easily, however, and chases Julie to the prom, with the help of his faithful friend, Fred (Cameron Dye), in an attempt to wrest her back. The sound track features the music of Men at Work, the Clash, and Josie Cotton in this 1980s teen comedy--an era, and topic, that director Coolidge was fond of chronicling, like her contemporary, John Hughes. [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Frederic Forrest, Lee Purcell
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Frederic Forrest, Lee Purcell, Colleen Camp, Elizabeth Daily, Richard Sanders
Director: Martha Coolidge
Director: Martha Coolidge
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Reviews for Valley Girl
For a change, there aren't any cartoon problem adults on hand as there often are in these pictures.
This movie is a little treasure, a funny, sexy, appealing story of a Valley Girl's heartbreaking decision: Should she stick with her boring jock boyfriend, or take a chance on a punk from Hollywood?
With characters as dimensionless as these, the film needs either greater irony or greater sympathy than it demonstrates.
It’s a measure of how, like, totally influential this little film was 20 years ago that there seems to be nothing special about it today.
Coolidge slips some darkness into Valley Girl that never resolves itself with the surrounding sunny void
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June 03, 2009:
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MGM's updated take on "Valley Girl" is moving forward, with Jason Moore signed to direct what will be a musical remake of the 1983 cult favorite. More...
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