Review of Smooth Talk (1985) by Sheila Benson for Los Angeles Times — 15 Jul 1994
The shiveringly memorable Smooth Talk may be the first film to get adolescence in America right, down to the last, delicate seismographic tremor. What it knows about the age will scare adults to death, because these film makers remember , as clearly as Joyce Carol Oates did when she wrote the short story from which “Smooth Talk” was made.
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This review of Smooth Talk (1985) was written by Sheila Benson and published by Los Angeles Times on 15 Jul 1994.
Smooth Talk has generally received mixed reviews.
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