Valley Girl (1983)
83 %
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
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 time capsule of 1980s teen vernacular. Julie and Randy become passionately involved; yet,... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Frederic Forrest, Lee Purcell, Colleen Camp
Director: Martha Coolidge
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Reviews
While it's easy to get caught up in the nostalgia of Valley Girl, this datedness also puts some limits on how you can watch the film.
Comment
09/12/07
For a change, there aren't any cartoon problem adults on hand as there often are in these pictures.
07/24/07
Top Critic
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?
10/23/04
Top Critic
With characters as dimensionless as these, the film needs either greater irony or greater sympathy than it demonstrates.
08/30/04
Top Critic
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.
08/06/03
Coolidge slips some darkness into Valley Girl that never resolves itself with the surrounding sunny void
07/29/03
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