Movies
February, 1986
Many of the wearisome clichés of youth movies are met head on--and conquered--by the accomplished company collaborating on Smooth Talk (Spectrafilm). Director Joyce Chopra, making her first full-length feature from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, has created a slight but suspenseful tale of sexual awakening in a California teenager who's muddling through her first long, hot summer of acute boy consciousness. "I'm not used to feeling this excited," mumbles 15-year-old Connie apologe...
