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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792863366
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792863364
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 29015
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 1986
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Laura Dern stars in this sensitive and beautifullydirected picture (The Wall Street Journal ) about the joysand perils of growing up in small-town America whereinnocence can be lost in the blink of an eye.System Requirements: Running Time 92 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616915207 Manufacturer No: 1007439
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lolita-1980's style.
The cinematography is a real pleasure for the eye. Some of the scenes of the old farmhouse, the sky, and Connie (Laura Dern) just sitting on a porch swing doing nothing but musing to herself are exquisitely composed.
There are some awkward scenes in this film version of the famous Joyce Carol Oates story, "Where are you going? Where have you been?", mainly because the original short story was set in the 1950's and the film is set in the 1980's thus the James Dean posters in Connie's ... Read More
Rating: - The Star Was Born
Since I read Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" many years ago as a teenager myself (many Oates' works were translated to Russian - she was and I hope still is very popular there), I've been fascinated by it. I've read many Oates's stories and some of her novels but the 10 pages long story of 15 years old Connie, "shallow, vain, silly, hopeful, doomed-- but capable nonetheless of an unexpected gesture of heroism at the story's end" has stuck in my memory ... Read More
Rating:  - Great acting Great movie
I am a senior citizen but this story and the acting brought up the feelings of when I was a teenager. A real tour de force IMO of what happens to a young girl and her awakening..the manipulation. The confused thoughts that are going thru her mind.
Old or young viewer can feel the emotion in both Treet Williams and Laura Dern as she both struggles with good and bad while he twists and turns to control her.
A small slice of life, but true and with excellent feeling.
Rating:  - Short Story Fans Will Be Disappointed
Leave it to the movie industry to completely sanitize an artfully crafted and disturbing story about a conflicted teen's coming of age and sexual awakening. When I discovered that there was a film adaptation of this Oates' story and that it had been casted with the seductive and cagey Laura Dern, I expected, at the very least, that the basic storyline would have been preserved. That Chopra changed the ending of this classic short story is truly disappointing--Ms. Oates, how could you allow it? The ... Read More
Rating: - Don't Miss This Performance Laura Dern Fans
Adapted from the short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", by Joyce Carol Oates; this slow paced and moody film is for those who like introspective stories where you spend a lot of the viewing time in self-analysis rather than character identification. The mood is complemented by a lot of James Taylor on the soundtrack with "Handyman" repeated several times.
It is also one of those "axe to grind" films where fans of the short story feel compelled to whine about the adaptation ... Read More
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