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Smooth Talk - The Criterion Collection

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Release Date: 26/06/2023

Edition: Restored
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: Drama
Region Code: Region B
Certificate: 15
Label: Criterion Collection
Actors: William Ragsdale, Elizabeth Berridge, Sarah Inglis, Margaret Welsh, Mary Kay Place, Treat Williams, Levon Helm, Laura Dern
Director: Joyce Chopra
Number of Discs: 1
Duration: 91 minutes
Audio Languages: English
Subtitle Languages: English

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates's celebrated short <br/>story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, whose <br/>summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger (a memorably menacing Treat Williams). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, <br/>Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration, and it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.

Special Features: Bonus Footage, Interviews: Joyce Chopra (director); David Wasco (production designer), Conversation between Joyce Carol Oates (author), Joyce Chopra and Laura Dern (actor) from the 2020 New York Film Festival; Conversations between Joyce Chopra and Treat Williams and Mary Kay Place (actors); Short films by Joyce Chopra: 'Joyce at 34' (1972), 'Girls at 12' (1975) and 'Clorae and Albie' (1975); Audio reading of the 1966 'Life' article 'The Pied Piper of Tucson' which inspired the short story by Joyce Carol Oates; Essay by Honor Moore (poet/memoirist), Trailers