Valley Girl (1983)
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
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Through it all, the platonic couple’s exploits allow Anderson and company to pinball around the same stomping grounds he featured in “Boogie Nights” and “Magnolia,” this time with a rowdier, more overtly comedic sensibility, reminiscent of L.A.-adjacent cult classics “Valley Girl” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
Paul Thomas Anderson’s fascination with the Seventies had more in common with the classic Eighties romantic comedy Valley Girl or something of that nature.
Neither a personal memory a la Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, nor a satire to vapidness like the “Valley Girl” song, Licorice Pizza embraces a distinct culture found in the perimeter of Hollywood where everyday people sometimes cross paths with faces whose fame both permits and promotes outlandish behavior.
In fact, Juno's working-class dad and stepmother -- beautifully played by Simmons and Allison Janney -- may be the coolest parents in movie history, or at least since Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp in 1983's "Valley Girl" (directed if not scripted by a woman, Martha Coolidge).
Bianca’s first act as a self-aware DUFF is to lash out at her confused best friends, resulting in a social-media-fueled “unfriend-off” that will probably stand the cinematic test of time about as well as Valley Girl’s slang.
But poor Green (The Dreamers) has absolutely nothing to do but stand at the top of high towers and gaze into the distance through her Valley Girl-inspired makeup.