Smooth Talk Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Joyce Chopra
Genres: Drama
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Produced for PBS's American_Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura_Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother (Mary_Kay_Place), father (Levon_Helm) and sister (Elizabeth_Berridge) go shopping, Dern decides to wander into town for male companionship. She makes the acquaintance of Treat_Williams, a handsome if mildly psychotic type who identifies himself as "A. Friend" and behaves like James_Dean. When she returns home, Dern is bewildered and dishevelled. We can only speculate as to whether or not she was raped by Williams; we do know that she isn't the same person we met at the beginning of the film. Smooth Talk was based on a 1970 short story by Joyce_Carol_Oates entitled "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Hal Erickson, Rovi
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