Times Square (1980)
Directed by Allan Moyle
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
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The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax-shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has only occasionally looked back since.
Original and intelligent, “Pump Up the Volume,” a feature about teen angst, was written and directed by Allan Moyle, who previously dealt with disaffected, music-obsessed teens in “Times Square.”
Cowriter (with Jacob Brackman)/director Allan Moyle ("Pump Up the Volume," TV's 'The Man in the Mirror') had something a little grittier in mind when he made this early film, which ending up playing a bit like "The Warriors" crossed with "Hardcore" in a toothless kind of way.