Valley Girl (1983)

Love this movie, probably my favorite 80s movie. Between Buff-Biff, the cougar-step-widow and the hippie parents, and a superb soundtrack.

Love the school band, and Samanthas gloves.

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Loved that movie

The best 80's movie that ever was. As a young gayling (15 when it was released) I was fascinated by Nick Cage's V-shaped chest hair.

First time I ever heard the Plimsoulls!

Plimsouls?

Love this movie!

It's definitely dated - does it hold up??

R7 Watch it and find out

This is really the first role Cage uses his alias to get the part and cement his stage name to distance himself from his uncle FFC.

Great movie, one of the best from the 1980's. I called Nic Cage's chest 'vagina chest'. Surely, they would have realised that the 'V' shaped, shaven chest hair would be noticeable?

Love this movie. The hippie parents were a great touch, much more modern than the Ozzie & Harriet types usually in teen movies. Julie’s line about her parents just getting married always gets a laugh from me. Deborah Foreman was seriously adorable and Cage surprisingly sexy. Only here and Moonstruck has he ever been hot.

Funny you mention this, because the other day the clip using "I Melt with You" (by Modern English) within the film came up on my feed, so I watched it.

Lots of familiar places and signage along Ventura Blvd. from the era. But the thing that made me laugh is that I immediately recognized the fugly wallpaper inside Du-par's restaurant.

Super cute fun movie, Nic Cage is young and sexy in this.

Lightfield Lewis, brother to actress Juliet Lewis, and both children of a prominent character actor who you always knew his face, but never his name, is obsessed with Valley Girl as somewhat his own lived experience. His dad got the family one of the first video cameras and he made all these period music and film related videos, which he’s cutting together and putting up on TikTok. He’s this out of control, over the top enthusiastic kid with a dark streak who definitely took Cage as a role model and re-enacts many of his scenes spliced in with the film. I’m kind of in awe of him and the stuff he makes, except for one thing.

It looks like you can’t link TIcToks here anymore, but his channel I’d lfl84 _ and the date of the video is 12-12-2022 (those are lower case “L” in the name) it’s worth seeking out.

Is not I’d???

Because this soundtrack cannot be mentioned enough:

I was in High School when this movie came out and I will always love how it accurately portrayed what school and teen life was like for us early Gen X'ers in the 80s. The story was based in LA but the school social hierarchy, parental indifference, and sexual awakening was happening to teenagers in towns all across America.

I especially love the house party scene. I went to many parties like that in my teens where some were preppies in polos, some were jocks or cheerleaders, some were nerds, and some were punks. We all mixed together united by diverse music and free-flowing alcohol, which was often provided by or condoned by parents of fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen-year-olds.

"Melt With You" will remain a classic but I knew this song was about me!

LOVE THIS MOVIE! I love being a fag

Definitely a classic. I was not a fan of the remake and don't understand why it was turned into a musical.

Nobody mentioned that Pee Wee's gf Dotty is in this and plays a sex kitten who shows her boobs. She was on To Tell the Truth recently.

^^Dotty was played by Elizabeth Daily, and her character on Valley Girl was Loryn. She's had a long career doing mostly voice over work, but a lot of acting roles as well.

She voiced the character of Chuckie on Rugrats, among so many other characters in other projects. She's done really well for herself.

Love her!

I just watched it for the first time. My eyes kept drifting to all the skin tight jeans with perfectly displayed bulges. Is that really how men dressed in 1983? I couldn't get over how the actors playing the parents were 5-8 years older than the actors playing the teenagers. It was a pretty fun movie.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, every guy on TV and in the movies who wasn't in a suit was in too-tight jeans. You really didn't see bulges much by 1983, that was really more of a 70s thing, like Wojo on "Barney Miller."