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    Foxes (1980)

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    Ex-TV commercial director Adrian (Flashdance, 9½ Weeks) Lyne made his feature film debut with this slick movie about four 16-year-old girls growing up in the San Fernando Valley, California, and their problems with life and men.

    A young Jodie Foster is Jeanie, the straight-arrow sorting out her friends at “boring” North Hollywood High, including podgy, unloved Madge (Marilyn Kagan), compulsive liar Deirdre (Kandice Stroh), and abused hooker Annie (ex-Runaways band member Cherie Currie).

    foxes2Jeanie clashes with her mother, Mary (Sally Kellerman), who does a lousy job of balancing family, school, and work; Madge attempts to set up housekeeping with an older man named Jay (Randy Quaid); Hottie Dierdre plays adolescent romantic games, breaking hearts along the way; and doomed Annie functions as a one-woman cautionary tale against bad boys and hard drugs.

    Foster’s Bugsy Malone co-star Scott Baio provides the male interest as Brad, but it’s really one to watch for the girls, who all overcome a clichéd script to give a good depiction of what it was like to be a teenager at the end of the 1970s.

    foxes3Former British pop star Adam Faith has a small role as Jeanie’s tour manager father and a young Laura Dern appears briefly in an early role.

    Jeanie
    Jodie Foster
    Madge
    Marilyn Kagan
    Annie
    Cherie Currie
    Deirdre
    Kandice Stroh
    Mary
    Sally Kellerman
    Jay
    Randy Quaid
    Brad
    Scott Baio
    Mrs Axman
    Lois Smith
    Bryan
    Adam Faith
    Debbie
    Laura Dern

    Director
    Adrian Lyne

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