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Smooth Talk
Directed by
Joyce Chopra
PG-13
1985
1h 31m
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6.5
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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.
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Cast of Smooth Talk
Laura Dern
Connie Wyatt
Treat Williams
Arnold Friend
Mary Kay Place
Katherine Wyatt
Levon Helm
Harry Wyatt
Elizabeth Berridge
June Wyatt
Margaret Welsh
Laura Condon
Sara Inglis
Jill O'Mara
William Ragsdale
Jeff
Geoff Hoyle
Ellie Oscar
David Berridge
Eddie Hunter
Cab Covay
Cab Driver
Joy Carlin
Laura's Mother
Mark McKay
Bobby King
Carl Mueller
Mall Boy
Michael French
Stan
Smooth Talk Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is almost uncanny in its self-assurance, in the way it knows that the first hour, where 'nothing' happens, is necessary if the payoff is to be tragic, instead of merely sensational.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
Chopra's film is a fascinating time capsule.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Throughout, Joyce Chopra patiently and shrewdly observes the contradictions of human behavior that Laura Dern brilliantly conveys.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
A haunting drama.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
Good work never truly vanishes, and 30-plus years later, 'Smooth Talk' finds its receptive era.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
...an apt response to America's puritanical mindset that still refuses to responsibly address sex education.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The film's power is enormous throughout; spare means (long-held closeups, a four-minute take of sisterly confessions) evoke a drama that seems to have been filmed holding its breath.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Plays uncomfortably like two movies jammed into one.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Cultural landmarks of time past, cruising the shopping mall and checking out other teens without an iPhone, pinpoint the film to a specific time and place. But the themes of teenage ennui transcend time.
Nashville Scene
Jason Shawhan
That film, Laura Dern's first leading role, adapted Joyce Carol Oates' immortal short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" into an intense portrait of the choices young women are asked to make on a daily basis.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Dern plays a silly, hopeful, and doomed figure whose interest in a groovy figure (played by Treat Williams) shows its initial sparks and the charm anyone can put on before shifting gears to its more controlling ways.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
In this collaboration, the director and the writer demonstrate a kind of discipline very rare in movies, especially a debut work.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The strained mother-daughter relationship in ''Smooth Talk'' is one of the film's highlights, suggesting that envy often translates into hostility.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
What makes Laura Dern's performance the event that it is--one of the finest, most sustained and most shatteringly observed we've had this year... it's rare to have this variety of insights about adolescence from an actress so nearly that age herself.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Not 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.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
A tight, haunting tale of edgy play between innocent prey (a young Laura Dern, perfect in her ability to toggle between willing object of desire and innocent, awkward ingenue) and predator (Treat Williams, channeling James Dean and Martin Sheen)...
Hyperallergic
Dan Schindel
Chopra has a precise eye for the vagaries of young adulthood, an Dern perfectly embodies the push-pull between Connie's curiosity and desire and the often-intimidating reality of adulthood.
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
Remains one of the most insightful and harrowing examinations of American adolescence ever put on film.
4Columns
Michelle Orange
With its unlikely note of resolution, the coda in particular belies the adaptation's larger insistence on nuance, ambiguity, what even a young girl knows, without knowing, to be irresolvable.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
A gorgeous, thrilling portrayal of careless childhood dissolving in the summer sun, Smooth Talk is a landmark coming-of-age film and signals the arrival of one of cinema's favorite stars.
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