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Valley Girl 
Actors : Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye
Director : Martha Coolidge
Studio : Polygram Video
by Polygram Video
Release Date : 1996-11-05
Publisher : Polygram Video
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9786304263457
UPC : 044004393539
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 93 reviews)
List Price : $9.98
Our Price : $8.94
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Valley Girl is, like--Omigod!--one of the most "tubular" teen comedies of the early 1980s. This movie launched Nicolas Cage's career, and it's easy to see why: Following his tiny role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cage is perfectly cast as a Hollywood punk who instantly falls for Julie (the irresistible Deborah Foreman), a San Fernando "Valley Girl"--a brighter variant of the stereotype immortalized in Moon Unit Zappa's 1982 novelty song--who must choose between wild-boy Nic and her preening jock boyfriend (Mark Bowen). Fortunately, Julie knows what's right for her (even if her "Val" friends don't), and in refreshing defiance of teen-flick tradition, her post-hippie parents (Frederic Forrest, Colleen Camp) are supportively cool. With sincere humor, a lively soundtrack of '80s hits, and a time-capsule cruise of Hollywood landmarks, Valley Girl is both timeless and nostalgic, owing much of its lasting appeal to Martha Coolidge's sensitive direction. Fer sure, y'know, it definitely won't gag you with a spoon. --Jeff Shannon |
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Too Funny! |
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The acting is not great, the story line not original, even the camera work is substandard, but there is something about this flick, perhaps its flaws that is so endearing. Gotta watch it with a girlfriend or three. Nicolas Cage's chest hair in the beach scene cracked us up so much we had pause for a while. The music is great, very 80s, very nostalgic, loved Modern English's 'I Melt With You'. Good times! |
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Yeah it's a little cheesy by "todays" standards but consider when the movie was made. That in mind, it's just one of those must have movies in you collection. This is a great movie.
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flash back to the 80's |
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Who does not love a young Nick Cage! Great movie, will bring you back! |
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Good pop-culture trip back in time |
I'm a few years younger than Nick Cage, but 1983's "Valley Girl" is still from my generation. I remember before I came across the movie on HBO back in the mid-80s, I wasn't even sure exactly what a 'valley girl' was. Maybe because I grew up in New Jersey, so far from California. But when I first heard about the title of this movie, I thought a valley girl was a girl who lived in the country, or down south or something. I didn't know what it was, until I watched "Valley Girl" for the first time, and to my surprise, it referred to trendy materialistic girls living in LA's San Fernando Valley.
"Valley Girl" is my all-time favorite teen movie, and watching it today is really an interesting trip back through time, to that new-wave era of the early 1980s. Yeah, you'll see some dated aspects to the movie, like playing LPs on stereo record turntables (I don't think CDs were on the market just yet), and some of the clothing, which, by the way, I think looked much more presentable than the clothes that post-millenium teens wear today. I mean, some young people today have the gall to laugh at early 80's styles of clothing, when they themselves are currently wearing baggy droopy pants, the girls today wearing torn jeans and-- well, you get the point. Randy and Fred's punk clothing looked more appropriate for church. I wonder what the young generation 25 years from now will think of 2007's baggy droopy pants. Everything is relative.
As I said, the movie itself is a time-capsule, an interesting look at early 80's pop-culture, told through a simple teen romance story. The movie is supposed to be simple, and to not delve too deep into any particular issue, as evidenced by the sub-plots which kepted the movie a little unfocused. Of course, "opposites attract" is the underlying theme here, as the main plot has Julie (Deborah Foreman), the popular Val girl, falling head-over-heals for Randy (Cage), the boy from the wrong side of the tracks (or from a higher altitude and different zip code), Hollywood. "Barf me out," Julie's Val friends are thinking. But Julie begs to differ, as she's searching for something new -- something different from her current obnoxious Val dude boyfriend Tommy, whom, as Julie puts it, "is such a total pukeoid."
By today's standards, VG might seem a little quaint at times, like some of the far-fetched aspects of the film, like when Randy was trying to win Julie back after she decided to go back to Tommy and the Val way of life, he followed Julie around on a date, and he managed to secure employment at all the places that Julie and her friends stopped at, all in the same night, so he could prove his love.
As a comedy, I'd say it's kinda funny. The scene when Randy was covertly working at the fastfood drive-in, and acting like a geek when he served Julie and her friends, with Tommy saying: "What a geek," was all hilarious. And the Val-speak itself was funny. It would be interesting to learn of how Val-speak originally started. I think it actually started in the 70s, but I'm not sure.
But finally, I'd definately recommend viewing VG for the nostalgia, as VG definately has taken an important place in pop-culture history. |
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I LOVE THIS MOVIE |
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IT WAS SPECTACULAR..I LOVED THIS MOVIE AND I AM GLAD I WAS ABLE TO FIND IT HERE,..THANK YOU AMAZON |
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