
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Chicago ReaderDave KehrCoolidge 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. |
| Apollo GuideRyan CracknellWhile 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. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...captures that sense of exploring beyond your narrow world for the first time. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Carole CorbeilValley 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. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestIt's an enjoyable flick, and it's often real funny. |
| VarietyVariety StaffFor a change, there aren't any cartoon problem adults on hand as there often are in these pictures. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis 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? |
| Rolling StoneElisabeth Garber-PaulBasing 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. |
| FanboyNation.comSean MulvihillThe core of the film is universal, the struggle of fitting in with your friends and finding that first spark of love. |
| The A.V. ClubMarjorie BaumgartenCoolidge 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. |