1983 Directed by Martha Coolidge
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.
Nicolas Cage Deborah Foreman Elizabeth Daily Michael Bowen Cameron Dye Heidi Holicker Michelle Meyrink Tina Theberge Lee Purcell Richard Sanders Colleen Camp Frederic Forrest David Ensor Joanne Baron Tony Plana Tony Markes Christopher Murphy Robby Romero Camille Calvet Lisa Antille Theresa Hayes Andrew Winner Betsy Bond Laura Jacoby Karl Johnson Joyce Hyser Michael Wyle Steve Sayre Wayne Crawford Show All…
College Lovers, A Rapariga de Los Angeles, La ragazza di San Diego, La chica del valle, Lány a völgyben, Bad Boyz, Fingrene væk!! fra min pige, Rebel Dreams, Sonhos Rebeldes, Dziewczyna z doliny, Valley Girl - Das Mädchen und der heiße Typ
Still fantastic. In my top 25. The "I Melt With You" montage in the film is one of my favorites in all of cinema. Proposed to my wife(who is from the valley) on an original one-sheet poster for this movie. It is very special to both of us.
Finally! I now know the origin story of the creepy clown doll Deborah Foreman sleeps with. Apparently crew members donated most of the props, and Martha Coolidge found that freaky joker stuffed in a box. Something about Deborah turning to that DOLL for comfort appealed to Martha deep down.
Some other things I learned during the director Q&A following the THIRD time I've caught this movie in a theater:
The studio mandated Martha Coolidge include four shots of boobs, so she stuck them in there.
Nic Cage lied about his last name being Coppola, which led to much confusion and some conflicting schedules.
Martha pulled Nic Cage's headshot out of the reject pile and used his photo as an example…
at no point did nic cage wear the incredible outfit he’s wearing on the poster so I demand a refund.
Only some loose observations:
* Nicolas Cage should have been in the film more than he was, with his brooding and weird under-overacting and apparent misunderstanding of what punk music is. I liked that red shirt he had on, and I love what absurdity his hair is up to in this.
* The motivations of the lead character make no sense, even if you accept the caveat that teenagers never make sense in Hollywood fiction, or rather, the film doesn't try to make any sense of them. At least Nic Cage shows us everything he's feeling every second he's on screen, I suppose, even if it's just a vacant stare as his character tries to think. (I love that vacant…
Well fuck you.. for sure.. like totally!
A fun romantic comedy starring Nic Cage as a "punk rocker" falling in love with a preppy Valley girl (played by Deborah Foreman). It gets a bit sappy at times, but it's nothing too egregious. Everyone in this looks like they're 25 years old, the teens and the parents. I loved the punk club bathroom where Cage frenched his ex-girlfriend; there was a Circle Jerks pamphlet on the wall. 🤘🏻
A fun movie to watch on Michelle an I's 1 year MCWP anniversary.
this soundtrack is a whole VIBE but the script sounds like it was written by a bot that watched 400 teen movies from the 80s and at no point does nic cage wear the “vest and tie no shirt” look from the poster. i am distraught.
"fuck off, for sure! like, totally!"
I love this movie cuz, like, most of it is just people standing around and chatting, and I love that, cuz that's, like, that's what real life is like, you know? but I also love that these moments of just like people talking to each other are where all the for-real character development stuff happens. it makes Valley Girl a real serious character development situation—which isn't to say that it's like constant character motion forward or backward—that would be too much—it's more like the characters are constantly enunciating themselves, they're always like telling us who they are, right? and that makes them really detailed and clear and sharp and just like totally fun to…
"Where are we gonna go?"
"I don't care."
...
"What are we gonna do?"
"Anything."
Sure, this story of forbidden love isn't exactly subtle. Sure, the main character's motivations turn on a dime. And sure, that Graduate-style subplot involving a young guy potentially sleeping with his girlfriend's mother seemed completely superfluous. Yet it doesn't matter, because Valley Girl has heart. And Nicolas Cage. But mostly heart.
Actually, ignore Cage for a second. Deborah Foreman is so sweet in this as Julie that she almost completely overcomes any inconsistencies with the writing. Every other person in the ensemble is distinctive, from Frederic Forrest to Elizabeth Daily. The soundtrack is superb, particularly the unofficial theme song. And Martha Coolidge's vivacious direction engenders…
5 Reasons I Like Valley Girl
1. It has Nicholas Cage, the greatest actor of all time.
2. Nicholas Cage hides in a shower in the bathroom of the party he got kicked out of, in hopes that the girl he was talking at the party would use the bathroom so that he could talk to her some more. This scene is equal parts hilarious and creepy.
3. Electric Avenue is on the soundtrack.
4. The most used adjective in the film is "bitchin"
5. Did I mention that The Cage is in it?
