Smooth Talk
1985
91 min
movie
6.4/ 10
Overview
Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling summertime awakening in Joyce Chopra’s Sundance-winning narrative debut—a haunting vision of innocence lost based on a celebrated short story by Joyce Carol Oates and starring Laura Dern (in her breakout performance) and Treat Williams.