31, “ It’s all over now, baby blue.Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Introduction The above review appeared in the pages of Boulder Weekly, Vol. But good work never truly vanishes, and 30-plus years later, Smooth Talk finds its receptive era.
#ARNOLD FRIEND SERIAL KILLER MOVIE#
Though Smooth Talk won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and garnered positive reviews upon release, the movie died at the box office. But a subtle brass sting under the music as Friend first spies Connie says otherwise. With his sleeves-rolled-up, his shirt unbuttoned down to his diaphragm, his hair coiffed, Friend looks like the sort of guy Connie hopes will come and whisk her away from this sleepy suburban town. She does: They first crossed paths outside Frank’s roadside hamburger stand. Friend.” Connie laughs nervously: “Do I know you?” “That’s my real name, and that’s what I want to be to you: A. “Arnold Friend,” he tells the tongue-tied Connie when he shows up on her driveway. You know his name’s Arnold Friend because it’s painted on his gold Pontiac LeMans. These scenes set you up for the loss of what’s to come once Arnold Friend (Treat Williams) arrives. Photos courtesy The Criterion Collection. Mary Kay Place and Laura Dern in Smooth Talk. At this point in her life, Connie’s only wish is to not turn out like her mom. Like some mother/daughter relationships, they used to be close, but now they are constantly at odds. Chopra and screenwriter Tom Cole leave out the murder and focus on Connie’s home life, particularly the relationship with her mother, Katherine (Mary Kay Place). Though there are moments that give you a sickening sensation in your stomach, there’s nothing in Smooth Talk as rough as those two prose pieces. Poet Honor Moore calls Smooth Talk “a harbinger of the #MeToo movement, an early challenge to a cultural silence now broken wide open.” Moore’s essay, included in Criterion’s set, connects the dots with Smooth Talks’ source material: Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?” and the 1966 Life article that inspired Oates, “The Pied Piper of Tucson,” about serial seducer/killer Charles Schmidt. But when the wrong guy suddenly intervenes, things go from sweet to sour with the snap of director Joyce Chopra’s fingers. She’s the most outgoing of the three, dressing to impress and going weak at the knees when the right guy smiles back.
When Connie (Laura Dern) spends the day at the mall with her two friends, she either flirts with every boy she passes or teases her friends about them. Released in 1985, Smooth Talk- restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection-is all about navigating those curves. But the mirror never talks back, never throws her a curve. Including pickup lines, which she rehearses in the bathroom mirror. She’s only 15, so there’s a lot Connie hasn’t worked out yet. Where really doesn’t matter, and who she doesn’t know yet-maybe someone who looks like James Dean and sings like James Taylor. Tall, skinny, blond, and lonely, Connie wants to meet someone and go somewhere.
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