Smooth Talk
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| Smooth Talk | |
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 DVD cover for Smooth Talk |
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| Directed by | Joyce Chopra |
| Produced by | Martin Rosen |
| Written by | Tom Cole (screenplay) Based on the short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates |
| Starring | Laura Dern Treat Williams |
| Music by | Russ Kunkel Bill Payne |
| Cinematography | James Glennon |
| Editing by | Patrick Dodd |
| Distributed by | American Playhouse Goldcrest Films |
| Release date(s) | September 10, 1985 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
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Smooth Talk is a 1985 motion picture, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders of Charles Schmid. The protagonist and main character Connie was played by Laura Dern, and her antagonist Arnold Friend was played by Treat Williams.
The film was produced by American Playhouse and Goldcrest Films, and originally released to movie theatres in 1985.
"Smooth Talking" Also relevant to the way or art of flirting in a way as to cleverly speak, or "Smooth Talk".
[edit] Plot summary
Connie is a restless 15-year-old who is anxious to experiment the pleasures of her sexual awakening before she enters her sophomore year in high school. She is left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother, her father and her sister go to a family barbeque. After Connie is playing around the house, Arnold Friend, a handsome if mildly psychotic stranger who identifies himself as "A. Friend" and behaves like James Dean, pulls up in his gold car with his friend in the passenger seat. She thinks about taking a ride with him, but after he persuades her into doing so, she does so out of fear, while his friend remains in the house. When she returns home, Connie is bewildered and dishevelled, but tells Arnold that she never wants to see him again. We can only speculate as to whether or not she was raped by Arnold; we do know that she isn't the same person we met at the beginning of the film.
