Valley Girl | | Cast : | Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman | | Director : | Martha Coolidge | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 08, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | June 08, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | Love this movie:0) | Content
 | I am a HUGE Nicolas Cage fan and this movie is a MUST have:0) It is funny, cute and a good family movie to watch together...My 13 year old absolutely loves the movie and is into watching all the 80's movies that I grew up on...The original soundtrack is a MUST have too...Very wholesome and adorable film:0) |
| Rating | | | Date | June 17, 2005 | | Summary | A Must See For Fans Of The 80's | Content
| "Valley Girl" is a gem of a movie. While the dialogue is stilted and the acting is pretty questionable (except for young Nicolas Cage), one cannot help but smile at the film's utter embodiment of everything early 1980's, including clothes and catch-phrases. The plot is a familiar one: two kids from different social groups fall in love and noone wants them to be together (ala "Pretty in Pink").
Nicolas Cage is good as Randy, a loud but sweet punk rocker who falls for the girl from the Valley, Julie. His is the best performance in the movie by far.
The movie is almost worth watching for the soundtrack alone. The soundtrack features Modern English, The Plimsouls, and Josie Cotton. Josie Cotton is the singer at the prom in the movie, too.
For those who grew up in the 80's, or are just fans of the decade, this movie is a must-see. And, hey, any movie that has a food fight at the prom can't be all bad. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | an overlooked classic, finally on DVD | Content
| For years unavailable, "Valley Girl" is one of the best teen movies of the 1980's. It manages to rise above cliche and features fine acting as well as a REALLY COOL soundtrack. The young Nicholas Cage plays the Hollywood bad boy with a golden heart and the effortlessly effervescent ( I've been waiting YEARS to type that phrase )Deborah Foreman is the title character who has the guts to stand up to her friends and follow her heart. Forget the naysayers who reject this movie as unrealistic, I for one think California girls really talked like that in 1983. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 04, 2005 | | Summary | Well acted | Content
| This was a well acted kids movie I saw when I was a kid. Nicholas Cage I thought was a freak at the time and now looking back he really showed what a good actor he would become.
There are great nuances in this movie as well as some pretty good pop rock tracks.
Lee Purcell is absolutely fantastic in her limited scenes as well as forever beautiful. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 28, 2004 | | Summary | Great to see this on DVD | Content
| Despite the complaint from another viewer (above) that this DVD falls short of being the luxury edition the film deserves, I was thrilled to come across "Valley Girl" on DVD. I'd previously only seen this movie on an ex-rental VHS tape, circa early 1980s, because "Valley Girl" appears never to have been re-issued on VHS in Australia. As well as being an obvious improvement on the VHS version in technical terms, the DVD has the added attraction of Martha Coolidge's audio commentary.
Her commentary on this DVD is considerably superior to that of Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe on the DVD of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", which I found overly casual and less informative (sorry Amy, I still love your films). Although I'd seen "Valley Girl" many times, Coolidge's commentary gave me a lot more insight into the film. She communicates at a level that the general public can understand, but doesn't neglect to discuss technical and business factors that importantly influenced the end product. Coolidge's commentary on "Valley Girl" is collected, engaging, detailed and very informative. The insight she provides into matters such as the work put into the film's colour scheme, the organisation of the brilliant party scene and the way budgetary constraints determined some aspects of the film is exemplary. Although this film is without doubt an icon of 1980s popular culture, it's also a remarkable accomplishment in filmmaking more generally: a movie that derives its premise from exploitation film but emerges as a more appealing and ideologically sound piece of youth entertainment than anyone expected of teen movies in that era. |
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