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Valley Girl (1983)
Released By: Vestron Video   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Vestron Video
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martha Coolidge
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Colleen Camp, Deborah Foreman, Fredric Forrest, Nicolas Cage
Published ID: 2729
UPC: 027616888488,
Plot: A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California '80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter gag me at every opportunity. To her friends' dismay , Julie breaks up with her egotistical boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), while shopping at the mall. All the valley kids go to a party that night, and Tommy immediately tries to bed one of Julie's friends. Randy (Nicolas Cage), a bad boy from Hollywood, shows up and crashes the party. Open-minded Julie flirts with him before he is literally thrown out, presumably just for looking different. Smitten with Julie, Randy sneaks back into the party to talk to her again. Julie drags a whimpering valley friend with her to spend the night cruising with Randy in Hollywood. After an extended courtship, Randy is in love with Julie, and she must choose between him and Tommy, who wants her back. Her friends refuse to accept Randy, who makes many exaggerated attempts to win back her love. Finally, after she has a heartfelt talk with her dad (Frederic Forrest), love triumphs at the prom. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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80s movies
Added 7/14/2009

A great coming of age film. Stars a young Nickolas Gage. It got the usual pretty girl and the guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", but it is carried off well. The music soundtrack is dead on the money. It is a great re-visit to the 80s in music, dress, vocabulary, etc. A lot of fun, worth it. A great movie to show kids today what it was like back in the day.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
DVD's
Added 3/3/2009

Love the fact that i got my product within 2 weeks but found i couldn't play it on my DVD player....had to spend another $80 on buying a Multi Region DVD player.....
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Totally tubular to the MAX !!
Added 1/12/2009

I could not love this movie more!!!! I knew all the "valley talk" of the 80's when I was a kid, but never was allowed to watch this movie because of its rating. As an adult, I heard a segment about it on an episode of VH1's "I love the 80's"... I purchased it not knowing how awesome it would be! I have watched this movie numerous times- it's sort of my HAPPY PLACE! And Nicolas Cage is absolutely gorgeous in it!

This movie captures the lighthearted teen scene in the 80's... things that are considered "taboo" now in teen movies (a.k.a doing drugs in the bathroom, or a teen girl's mom trying to hook up with the boy her daughter has a crush on) are perfectly normal and acceptable in this movie- which makes it so great! It's a good love story as well as a trip back in time! It also has the BEST techno-rock soundtrack; I would recommend that as well.

If not for any other reason, watch this movie for the totally 80's fashions.. Very entertaining!! I would strongly recommend this movie to anyone who loves the 1980's as much as I do. Trippin -Dicular!!

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Valley Girl Rocks!
Added 12/19/2008

VALLEY GIRL is a neat comedy drama of a movie about a girl in the valley in L.A. County who falls head over heels for an outsider(Nicholas Cage) who is not from the valley and is like the complete opposite from Julie(Deborah Foreman) who nobody approves of, but Randy (Nicholas Cage) & Julie(Deborah Foreman)still make a great & cute couple, which proves to be the case when Julie decides to dump Randy later and reconciles with her ex-boyfriend Tommy(Mike Bowen)after Julie ends up giving into peer pressure from her friends.

VALLEY GIRL also had numerous popular hit songs from the 1980's in it too like "I Melt With You" by Modern English; "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant; "Don't Put Another Dime In The Jukebox" by The Flirts, "Who Can It Be Now" by Men-At-Work; "Girls Like Me" by Bonnie Hayes, etc.

As a matter of fact, VALLEY GIRL was the movie that made Nicholas Cage famous & launched his acting career.

VALLEY GIRL also has an intriguing nude scene when Suzi's boyfriend(Skip) walks in the house and into Suzi's bathroom upstairs seeing Suzi in the shower in full frontal nudity, snatch & all, just before Suzy's mothe Beth Brent(Lee Purcell)gets home & barges into Suzi's bedroom catching Skip(David Ensor) & Suzi(Michelle Meyrick) doing hubba hubba, but what I found kind of strange in this movie was Skip & Beth seemed to have been paying more attention to each other than Skip had been paying attention to Suzi, especially since Beth was obviously falling for Skip even though Beth was obviously way too old for Skip.

Additionally, I found it kind of odd why Julie's mother Sarah(Colleen Camp) never figured out that Julie's father Steve(Frederick Forest) was drug addict, especially since Sarah noticed at least several times that Steve was disorganized & distracted.

I also couldn't understand why Julie's girlfriends were so insisitent about wanting Julie to get back together with Tommy, since Julie's girlfriends all thought Randy was a fox, but then all of the sudden Julie's friends change their mind about Randy being compatible for Julie when Julie starts spending most of her time with Randy after getting over her break-up with Tommy, but I suspect that Julie's friends reason for being persistent about wanting Julie to reconcile with Tommy was probably due to the fact that they were probably getting jealous of Julie and Randy's relationship, since Julie stopped spending so much time with her friends when she started dating Randy along with the fact that Randy wasn't even from their high school or the valley, unlike Tommy, Julie, and her girlfriends, not to mention that Julie was obviously not even attracted to Tommy, especially whenever Tommy tried to make a pass at her, plus I can't see how Julie's friends could even stand Tommy for that matter either, especially since Tommy had tried getting into Loryn's(Liz Daily's) pants.

Fortunately, VALLEY GIRL has a happy ending to it when Julie decides to reconcile with Randy at the prom when Randy kicks Tommy's butt at the end of the movie just before Julie & Randy take off with the chauffer.

This movie also takes me all the way back to memory lane to the days when I was living in the Imperial Valley since I was living in my hometown(El Centro, CA)at the time, which was another reason why I used to get so fascinated watching various scenes of this movie that took place in the L.A. Area since it was the total opposite from where I come from since the whole Imperial Valley is just a small ugly secluded community in the Desert Southwest with basically nothing to do for fun or entertainment, unlike the L.A. Area.

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Great film
Added 7/9/2008

Arguable the best movie about high school. Comedy - Drama - Music. The complete packet
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
80s movies
Added 7/14/2009

A great coming of age film. Stars a young Nickolas Gage. It got the usual pretty girl and the guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", but it is carried off well. The music soundtrack is dead on the money. It is a great re-visit to the 80s in music, dress, vocabulary, etc. A lot of fun, worth it. A great movie to show kids today what it was like back in the day.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
DVD's
Added 3/3/2009

Love the fact that i got my product within 2 weeks but found i couldn't play it on my DVD player....had to spend another $80 on buying a Multi Region DVD player.....
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Totally tubular to the MAX !!
Added 1/12/2009

I could not love this movie more!!!! I knew all the "valley talk" of the 80's when I was a kid, but never was allowed to watch this movie because of its rating. As an adult, I heard a segment about it on an episode of VH1's "I love the 80's"... I purchased it not knowing how awesome it would be! I have watched this movie numerous times- it's sort of my HAPPY PLACE! And Nicolas Cage is absolutely gorgeous in it!

This movie captures the lighthearted teen scene in the 80's... things that are considered "taboo" now in teen movies (a.k.a doing drugs in the bathroom, or a teen girl's mom trying to hook up with the boy her daughter has a crush on) are perfectly normal and acceptable in this movie- which makes it so great! It's a good love story as well as a trip back in time! It also has the BEST techno-rock soundtrack; I would recommend that as well.

If not for any other reason, watch this movie for the totally 80's fashions.. Very entertaining!! I would strongly recommend this movie to anyone who loves the 1980's as much as I do. Trippin -Dicular!!

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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