It was the Grand Jury Prize winner of the Sundance Film Festival in its year. It launched the storied career of Laura Dern in earnest. And it opened in theaters alongside largely favorable reviews. But Joyce Chopra’s elusive, heartbreaking, and even terrifying female-centric coming-of-age movie “Smooth Talk” (1985) didn’t exactly stay top of mind as one of the prime examples of movies about teenage angst, at least not when compared to something like “Dazed and Confused” or the films of John Hughes.
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