Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk

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Free-spirited 15-year-old Connie Wyatt is too young to drive, but not too young to drive the boys crazy. She also wants to escape the boredom of family farm life. Her suspicious mother wants to keep her safely at home, but she wants to while away the languid summer days hanging out with her friends and flirting with boys at the local burger stand. But when she flirts with a mysterious, handsome stranger named Arnold Friend, she finds herself in danger and must prepare herself... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Smooth Talk:

Laura Dern
Treat Williams
Mary Kay Place
Levon Helm
Elizabeth Berridge
Margaret Welsh

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Free-spirited 15-year-old Connie Wyatt is too young to drive, but not too young to drive the boys crazy. She also wants to escape the boredom of family farm life. Her suspicious mother wants to keep her safely at home, but she wants to while away the languid summer days hanging out with her friends and flirting with boys at the local burger stand. But when she flirts with a mysterious, handsome stranger named Arnold Friend, she finds herself in danger and must prepare herself for the frightening, traumatic consequences. Based on the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates.

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The New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyA remarkably fine film about the muddle of emotions that separates the child from the adult.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Dave KehrJoyce Chopra's independent feature plays uncomfortably like two movies jammed into one: the first is a slow, exaggeratedly naturalistic portrait of teenage alienation in the shopping mall culture of California, the second is a violent, stylized gothic shocker. Both films have their modest qualities; it's just that Chopra hasn't found an intelligible transition between the two very different approaches.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyDisregard the incoherent ending, which violates the source material (Joyce Carol Oates story): in her debut, Chopra has made a disturbing tale of sexual awakening set against the 1980s new context of shopping malls; Laura Dern is extraordinary as the lead
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertThe movie is also uncanny in what it does with its last three shots. I watched them, and could not believe so much could be implied so simply. Leave the movie before it's over, and you miss almost everything, because what Connie does at the very end of the film is necessary. It makes "Smooth Talk" the story of the process of life, instead of just a sad episode.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Sheila BensonThe shiveringly memorable Smooth Talk may be the first film to get adolescence in America right, down to the last, delicate seismographic tremor. What it knows about the age will scare adults to death, because these film makers remember , as clearly as Joyce Carol Oates did when she wrote the short story from which “Smooth Talk” was made.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Rita KempleyNot just another youth movie, but a deft dramatization of a Joyce Carol Oates story adapted by a couple of documentary filmmakers in their feature debut.
Chicago Tribune - 9/10 by Gene SiskelHere, as elsewhere, one senses that the images are being asked to carry rather more metaphorical weight than they are able to bear.
Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Jake ColeThroughout, Joyce Chopra patiently and shrewdly observes the contradictions of human behavior that Laura Dern brilliantly conveys.
Miami Herald - 8/10 by Bill CosfordSMOOTH TALK is trying to talk to a 1980s generation by using 1960s dialog. Faithfully adapted from a 1970 Joyce Carol Oates short story, the film's attitudes are better suited to that era than to the present. Dern (daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd), however, is the one element that makes SMOOTH TALK.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatOffers ample and telling observations on adolescence, mother-daughter relationships, familial tensions, and the erotic yearnings of youth.

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