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Summary: A Tacky 70's Bauble that Still Manages to Have Lustre.
Review: I love Foxes. It has bad clothes (tight spandex and satin shirts for God's sake!), feathered hair in overkill, and lots of bad disco era pop--Giorgio Moroder and Angel gone Dance Fever toward the end of a career that had started out with some promise. It's all so bad, it's totally irresistible.
That's not why I love it, though. What makes Foxes escape being a bad cinematic relic from 1980 is the fact that it manages to embrace issues for young girls who still have problems quite similar to today's teens, and brings them on without all the sugar-coated horse puckey of so many other films that typify this genre.
Jodi Foster plays Jeanie, a young girl who's smart and level-headed enough to be able to look after her troubled friends: Madge, the innocent, plain virgin who is carrying on with an older man, trampy Dierdre who will chase anything with a pocket rocket, and Annie, who is the saddest and most haunting of the four girls. Ironically, Jeanie is also more of an adult than her divorced mother (Sally Kellerman), and they constantly bicker. Scott Baio as Brad is basically an annoying sex maniac on a skateboard, but this movie is well acted and the situations are honestly dealt with, both humorously and brutally.
Most touching is Cherie Currie's debut as Annie Mallick, Jeannie's closest friend, the most plagued of the girls by drugs, and the daughter of an abusive cop who ends up putting her in a mental hospital until she escapes. These girls all have very real problems, and their home lives more than point out why they are so burdened during what is supposedly "the best time of their lives." That line is and always has been an untrue cliche', and this movie doesn't offer a happy ending or quick fix. Adrian Lyne deserves a lot of praise for that fact alone. If you want to see a movie about troubled teens that deals honestly with its subject matter, overlook the silliness of the era in which it was filmed, and hunt down Foxes. It's worth the chase.
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Summary: powerful teen drama
Review: I loved this movie from the moment I saw it for sale at my video store's discard rack ten years ago. I recently received the DVD as a gift and the sound quality is a big improvement over my old vhs copy. I recommend it for performances, the story and the photography. Jodie Foster's monologue toward the end of the film is particularly memorable. Each girl's story line is realistic and the film itself does a good job of capturing teen life in the late 70s before yuppie values took hold. This is NOT a John Hughes film and is a refreshing change for anyone who was subjected that director's teen films in the 80s.
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Summary: I wish it were on DVD
Review: I saw this movie about 2 dozen times when I was ~13. It deeply affected me. I still have a pavlovian rush of grief every time I hear On the Radio (and not because its disco). I relate to the movie and was able to avoid the excesses it showed, but only by shear luck. Now in my mid-30's, it still has the same impact. Great acting, real characters and real human frailty. Don't miss out.
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Summary: HE WEARS WHITE SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: No other film for me portray the teenage life for what it really is then this film. It seems to me that after the liberal mentality to blame society and everybody else for your mistakes has ruined the teen films that came out in the eighties and nineties and to this day and age. Very few films have ever portrayed the teen angst as Foxes has. Other films would be "Born Innocent", "Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcholic" with Linda Blair, before she ruined her career making low budget horror films. Being a teen in the nineties I never saw a film show the ugly side of teenagers. Foxes did. All the movies I remembered were the big party movie where everyone gets drunk or finds love and everything was happily everafter before credits. Foxes didn't. Foxes shows a teen falling in love with an older man. No film would ever show that now. It's politically incorrect, but it does happen and I had a few of my friends get married to older guys. Not old, old. Foxes shows a party almost for what it really is. Good times and then that person, everyone hates will show and just ruin it. Had that really happen to me once. That is why I like this movie. It's one of my favorite. I found this small gem of a film one day after work. It reminded me of my life. Back when I was a teen and everything was a big drama and I thought my life was over. So if ever you want to show teens a small dose of reality have them check this movie out. It's the closes they might get to what hollywood thinks of a teenager. At the least then in the 70's they were doing it right.
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Summary: HORMONES A GO-GO
Review: Something like a slut-fest as girls from one summer camp, and boys from the competing summer camp... Your search for sensitivley portayed adolescent issues shall be long, arduous, and wasted. A "campy" sequel to the pedophillic "Pretty Baby"? Sorry. I couldn't help it.
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Summary: Not bad to sit through, but don't look forward to it.
Review: The best thing about this movie is seeing Jodie Foster and Scott Baio so young! It is obvious of Jodie's talent even in a movie like this. You wonder where the plot is going, and what is the point of the movie. Also, if you can stop laughing at the clothes, you might enjoy parts of this movie. Not bad all in all, but not one of the greatest. What was up with the skate board craze back then?
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Summary: Still Relevant Coming of Age Story
Review: This film is an excellent coming of age drama that teens and young adults today will enjoy despite the fact that it was filmed in the late 70's. Jodi Foster has a mom who dates casually and lets her pretty much do what she wants to do. It's obvious her moms house is the cool house because all of her friend "hang" at her house. Each one of the girls has some serious issues that they are dealing with. These girls are going through some of the same things teens today are going through. This movies succeeds where a lot of current films like "Thirteen" fail. It shows, it shocks and there are serious consequences. The DVD doesn't have any extras and the film quality isn't much better than the VHS. What I love most about the story in the film is how the friends really bond together to try to help the one friend who needs help the most."We raise our children in love and they grow up in love" is a quote from one of Jodie Fosters instructors at the beginning of the film and it's very fitting to the lives of the main characters.
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Summary: A great film!
Review: This is THE greatest film of 1979. Jodie Foster is such a knockout, and the story is so good, I wanna watch it over and over again. This movie very well describes what many teens go through in their teenage years. You must own this film, your $10 will be worth it!
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Summary: Foxes N Angel
Review: THIS MOVIE IS EXCELLENT, AND WATCHING THIS AGAIN
BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES.LOOKING AT THE CLIPS
FROM ANGEL IS ALWAYS A TREAT,AND BASICALLY THEY ARE
THE REASON FOR THE PURCHASE OF THIS VIDEO. NEVER THE LESS
TO MENTION THE TALENTS OF JODI FOSTER.
THIS IS A MOVIE THAT YOU NEVER GROW TIRED FROM.
I WAIT FOR THE RELEASE OF THE DVD. *****
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Summary: This movie is great!
Review: This movie needs to be on DVD. It is essential and underappreciated. I saw it when it first came out when I was in 8th grade and never forgot it. It is a late 70's/early 80's decadent SoCal teen slice of life. They even throw in Scott Baio in Adidas shorts on a skateboard for versimilitude. Jodie Foster is awesome, Sally Kellerman is neurotic and self-centered, Cherie Curie is unforgettable. That party scene-I dug it when I was a kid but today it's every adults nightmare. The soundtrack is perfect--only thing missing is some Cheap Trick!
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