Valley Girl

Name: Valley Girl
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: April 29, 1983
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Cameron Dye, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Heidi Holicker, Lee Purcell

1983

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Atlantic Releasing Corporation | Release Date: April 29, 1983 | R

Starring: Cameron Dye, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Heidi Holicker, Lee Purcell, Michael Bowen, Michelle Meyrink, Nicolas Cage, Richard Sanders, Tina Theberge

Summary: Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

Director: Martha Coolidge

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Dave Kehr

Coolidge hasn't made a campy, condescending comedy, but a satiric romance, in which the background gags and caricatures contribute to a sense of significant conflicts and solid emotions. It's irresistible. Read full review

Elisabeth Garber-Paul

Basing a teen film on Romeo and Juliet? It'd had been done. Replacing a Montague and a Capulet with a San Fernando Valley shopping-mall habitue (Deborah Foreman) and a sensitive Hollywood punk (Nicolas Cage)? Now we're talking. Read full review

Roger Ebert

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? Read full review

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Valley is very good simply because director Martha Coolidge obviously cares about her two lead characters and is privileged to have a couple of fine young performers, Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman, to make the audience care. Read full review

the wooden acting and threadbare plot of the 1983 Romeo And Juliet-meets-The Graduate-meets-MTV love story Valley Girl is almost entirely redeemed by the stung cockiness of Nicolas Cage. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Coolidge has no axe to grind with Valley Girls. They’re simply teenagers subject to the classic problems of love and peer pressure, albeit spiced with their own distinct valley jargon. Coolidge directs all this with a light hand and the non-stop musical score features music by the Plimsouls, Josie Cotton, Clash, Men at Work, Sparks, and many more. Read full review

Janet Maslin

The characters and their jargon are occasionally amusing, but there's no action, no conflict, no overwhelming satire and nothing to jolt them out of their lethargy. Read full review

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