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Valley Girl (1983)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:13

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.7/10

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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A classic from a bygone era, Valley Girl has been given the special edition treatment.

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