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Smooth Talk

6.3

Released September 21, 1985Runtime 1h 31min

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Palmyra Films

American Playhouse

Goldcrest

Nepenthe Productions

Production Countries

United States of America

United Kingdom

Finances

Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

Stream

Rent

Buy

Videos

Cast

Laura DernConnie Wyatt

Treat WilliamsArnold Friend

Mary Kay PlaceKatherine Wyatt

Levon HelmHarry Wyatt

Elizabeth BerridgeJune Wyatt

Margaret WelshLaura Condon

Sara InglisJill O'Mara

William RagsdaleJeff

Geoff HoyleEllie Oscar

David BerridgeEddie Hunter

Cab CovayCab Driver

Joy CarlinLaura's Mother

Mark McKayBobby King

Carl MuellerMall Boy

Michael FrenchStan

Crew

Joyce ChopraDirector

Carol DePasqualeScript Supervisor

Tom ColeScreenplay

Joyce Carol OatesNovel

Martin RosenProducer

Mary ColquhounCasting

Lindsay LawExecutive Producer

Timothy MarxAssociate Producer

Ann BrebnerCasting Associate

Mary M. EnsignProduction Manager

Douglas MurraySound Editor

Philip PerkinsProduction Sound Mixer

Gwendolyn Yates WhittleAssistant Sound Editor

Dennie ThorpeFoley Artist

Stephen BallietBoom Operator

Mark LevinsonAssistant Sound Editor

James GlennonDirector of Photography

Patrick DoddEditor

Carol OditzCostume Design

David WascoProduction Design

George MassenburgOriginal Music Composer

Russ KunkelOriginal Music Composer

Bill PayneOriginal Music Composer

Robert JoyceSet Decoration

Natalie MucynMakeup Artist

Lynn Marie CurreriHairstylist

Craig HaagensenCamera Operator

Rocky CapellaStunt Coordinator

Dan GillhamGaffer

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Reviews

Based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates called "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", "Smooth Talk" stars Laura Dern as a bored and restless adolescent who thinks she's more in control of her sexual allure, and more capable of handling the attention she receives for it, than she is. In a ...