Valley Girl |  | Director: Martha Coolidge
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  101 reviews
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1004818D
ISBN: 0792857372
UPC: 002761688848
EAN: 9780792857372
ASIN: B00005JLFA
Theatrical Release Date: April 8, 1983
Release Date: August 5, 2003
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Valley Girl is, like--Omigod!--one of the most "tubular" teen comedies of the early 1980s. This movie launched Nicolas Cage's career, and it's easy to see why: Following his tiny role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cage is perfectly cast as a Hollywood punk who instantly falls for Julie (the irresistible Deborah Foreman), a San Fernando "Valley Girl"--a brighter variant of the stereotype immortalized in Moon Unit Zappa's 1982 novelty song--who must choose between wild-boy Nic and her preening jock boyfriend (Mark Bowen). Fortunately, Julie knows what's right for her (even if her "Val" friends don't), and in refreshing defiance of teen-flick tradition, her post-hippie parents (Frederic Forrest, Colleen Camp) are supportively cool. With sincere humor, a lively soundtrack of '80s hits, and a time-capsule cruise of Hollywood landmarks, Valley Girl is both timeless and nostalgic, owing much of its lasting appeal to Martha Coolidge's sensitive direction. Fer sure, y'know, it definitely won't gag you with a spoon. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
An ultra-conservative daughter of liberal 60s parents meets and falls for a punker from Hollywood. The two widely different backgrounds make for interesting rivalries.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
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 Doesn't Gag You With A Spoon January 22, 2010
David Baldwin (Philadelphia,PA USA)
The studio bean counters were probably chomping at the bit when they were pitched this film whose title was spun-off from Moon Zappa's novelty hit song. They were rewarded with a film of great poignance and intelligence about a love story between two kids from opposite sides of the tracks. Director Martha Coolidge delivers a film that is very knowing about class envy and peer pressure and how it effects relationships. What I liked about this film is it shows the vulnerability of the teen years and not as all-knowing adults. Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman project dynamism and your heart breaks when their love hits a bump in the road. Two scenes stand out as smart homages to other films. One where Cage and Foreman are nuzzling under the marquee of a movie theatre where "Romeo and Juliet" is playing and at the end where the two escape from the prom and sit safely in the back seat of a stretch limo which recalls "The Graduate". My only reservation here is some gratuitous nudity which seemed to be a staple in films at that time.
 80s movies July 14, 2009
J. McGeary (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great coming of age film. Stars a young Nickolas Gage. It got the usual pretty girl and the guy from the "wrong side of the tracks", but it is carried off well. The music soundtrack is dead on the money. It is a great re-visit to the 80s in music, dress, vocabulary, etc. A lot of fun, worth it. A great movie to show kids today what it was like back in the day.
 DVD's March 3, 2009
T. Symonds
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love the fact that i got my product within 2 weeks but found i couldn't play it on my DVD player....had to spend another $80 on buying a Multi Region DVD player.....
Totally tubular to the MAX !! January 12, 2009
Katie Gailitis (Mason, Mi.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I could not love this movie more!!!! I knew all the "valley talk" of the 80's when I was a kid, but never was allowed to watch this movie because of its rating. As an adult, I heard a segment about it on an episode of VH1's "I love the 80's"... I purchased it not knowing how awesome it would be! I have watched this movie numerous times- it's sort of my HAPPY PLACE! And Nicolas Cage is absolutely gorgeous in it!
This movie captures the lighthearted teen scene in the 80's... things that are considered "taboo" now in teen movies (a.k.a doing drugs in the bathroom, or a teen girl's mom trying to hook up with the boy her daughter has a crush on) are perfectly normal and acceptable in this movie- which makes it so great! It's a good love story as well as a trip back in time! It also has the BEST techno-rock soundtrack; I would recommend that as well.
If not for any other reason, watch this movie for the totally 80's fashions.. Very entertaining!! I would strongly recommend this movie to anyone who loves the 1980's as much as I do. Trippin -Dicular!!
Valley Girl Rocks! December 19, 2008
Taheen Lopez (United States- San Diego, CA)
VALLEY GIRL is a neat comedy drama of a movie about a girl in the valley in L.A. County who falls head over heels for an outsider(Nicholas Cage) who is not from the valley and is like the complete opposite from Julie(Deborah Foreman) who nobody approves of, but Randy (Nicholas Cage) & Julie(Deborah Foreman)still make a great & cute couple, which proves to be the case when Julie decides to dump Randy later and reconciles with her ex-boyfriend Tommy(Mike Bowen)after Julie ends up giving into peer pressure from her friends.
VALLEY GIRL also had numerous popular hit songs from the 1980's in it too like "I Melt With You" by Modern English; "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant; "Don't Put Another Dime In The Jukebox" by The Flirts, "Who Can It Be Now" by Men-At-Work; "Girls Like Me" by Bonnie Hayes, etc.
As a matter of fact, VALLEY GIRL was the movie that made Nicholas Cage famous & launched his acting career.
VALLEY GIRL also has an intriguing nude scene when Suzi's boyfriend(Skip) walks in the house and into Suzi's bathroom upstairs seeing Suzi in the shower in full frontal nudity, snatch & all, just before Suzy's mother Beth Brent(Lee Purcell)gets home & barges into Suzi's bedroom catching Skip(David Ensor) & Suzi(Michelle Meyrick) doing hubba hubba, but what I found kind of strange in this movie was Skip & Beth seemed to have been paying more attention to each other than Skip had been paying attention to Suzi, especially since Beth was obviously falling for Skip even though Beth was obviously way too old for Skip.
Additionally, I found it kind of odd why Julie's mother Sarah(Colleen Camp) never figured out that Julie's father Steve(Frederick Forest) was drug addict, especially since Sarah noticed at least several times that Steve was disorganized & distracted.
I also couldn't understand why Julie's girlfriends were so insisitent about wanting Julie to get back together with Tommy, since Julie's girlfriends all thought Randy was a fox, but then all of the sudden Julie's friends change their mind about Randy being compatible for Julie when Julie starts spending most of her time with Randy after getting over her break-up with Tommy, but I suspect that Julie's friends reason for being persistent about wanting Julie to reconcile with Tommy was probably due to the fact that they were probably getting jealous of Julie and Randy's relationship, since Julie stopped spending so much time with her friends when she started dating Randy along with the fact that Randy wasn't even from their high school or the valley, unlike Tommy, Julie, and her girlfriends, not to mention that Julie was obviously not even attracted to Tommy, especially whenever Tommy tried to make a pass at her, plus I can't see how Julie's friends could even stand Tommy for that matter either, especially since Tommy had tried getting into Loryn's(Liz Daily's) pants.
Fortunately, VALLEY GIRL has a happy ending to it when Julie decides to reconcile with Randy at the prom when Randy kicks Tommy's butt at the end of the movie just before Julie & Randy take off with the chauffer.
This movie also takes me all the way back to memory lane to the days when I was living in the Imperial Valley since I was living in my hometown(El Centro, CA)at the time, which was another reason why I used to get so fascinated watching various scenes of this movie that took place in the L.A. Area since it was the total opposite from where I come from since the whole Imperial Valley is just a small ugly secluded community in the Desert Southwest with basically nothing to do for fun or entertainment, unlike the L.A. Area.
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