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Joan N An underrated gem. Great performances from Laura Dern and Treat Williams. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/28/24 Full Review Audience Member I saw this movie when it came out in 1985 and just recently saw it again. What a difference 35 years make. When I first saw it, I thought Treat Williams was fantastic, destined to be a star. This time around, I thought his acting was overwrought, a little too mannered. This time around, it is Laura Dern who is fantastic as a teen chafing against her family on the one hand, and a nervous, giggly, anxious, girls-just-want-to-have-fun teenager on the other. She's sexually curious but hesitant. That is, until she is relentlessly pursued by the enigmatic Wiliams, simultaneously threatening and seductive. She engages him skeptically from behind a screen door until she reluctantly agrees to go for a ride in his muscle car. We next see the car parked in the country without the couple and we left to wonder when she returns gratefully engaging her family. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Smooth Talk achieves an incredible trick: what first starts as a happy, breezy '80s coming-of-age film becomes a frightening and disturbing reflection on the dangers of growing up fast and the consequences of the predatory male gaze. Laura Dern gives an impressive, powerful performance, especially for a young actor. The film's strengths lie partially in its ability to ground relationships, consequences, and dialogue in a realistic manner that feels tangible. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review william k Laura Dern is extraordinary in this realistic, dark adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates' story; the final sequence is particularly intense and harrowing. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Based on the writings Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been A very young Laura Dern is Connie, a rebellious partying teenager with a stubborn mother to boot She wants to spend her sophomore year getting all the guys' attention and shopping with her friends Connie's also feeling neglected given her own mother favors her sister more Things start to get interesting when at a bbq an older man played by Treat Williams starts noticing her more and more Dern is very charismatic in the lead but Williams isnt in the movie enough to make a lasting impact. Overall I didn't like it. Not much going on to keep me invested. The nature of it is pretty dark and disturbing to say the least. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member An impressive early performance from Laura Dern in this disturbing '80s coming of age drama. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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