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Valley Girl (1983), directed by Martha Coolidge

11/7/2015

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Romantic comedy starring Deborah Foreman as a high school girl of the upper middle-class San Fernando Valley who falls for a punk kid (Nicolas Cage) from Hollywood, jeopardizing her social status and friendships.  Sounds mundane, but is actually smartly directed, funny, and consistently entertaining, even if some of its ideas are only half-formed.  Foreman is fine, but it's Cage who sets the tone with an Elvis-like smile that is impossible to resist.  With Lee Purcell as a Mrs. Robinson-type mother whose attempted seduction of a Valley boy is a comic highlight.

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