Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.
The Legend of Billie Jean has generally received positive reviews.
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By Janet Maslin (949) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Jan 2005
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The Legend of Billie Jean was released in 1985 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 203 reviews, giving The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 48%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Legend of Billie Jean a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 65%, The Legend of Billie Jean is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1985, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1985 with similar scores include films like Rocky IV, Weird Science and Vision Quest.
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