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Smooth Talk is a 1985 film directed by Joyce Chopra, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid.
Nov 15, 1985 · Smooth Talk: Directed by Joyce Chopra. With Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Margaret Welsh. A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.
"Smooth Talk" is based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, who so often finds the materials of classic tragedy in the lives of everyday people. Although the movie is shocking, it is not sensational in the way it might have been - if it had been handled as a horror story, say, instead of as a morality play.
Oct 29, 2020 · The new restoration of Smooth Talk opens in the Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema on November 6. Get tickets: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/smooth-ta...
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration, and it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
Elevated by Laura Dern's haunting performance, Smooth Talk is far more than your average coming-of-age drama. Fifteen-year-old Connie (Laura Dern) spends the summer before her sophomore year ...
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A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences. Free-spirited 15-year-old Connie Wyatt is too young to drive, but not too young to drive the boys crazy.
