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Modern Girls (1986)

Comedy | 84 minutes
2,57 7 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 84 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Jerry Kramer

Stars: Cynthia Gibb, Virginia Madsen and Daphne Zuniga

IMDb score: 5,8 (1.887)

Releasedate: 7 November 1986

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Modern Girls plot

"Never stand in line. Never pay for your own drinks. Never stand next to a dweeb."

The nerdy Clifford has been able to arrange a date with the beautiful Kelly. But when he comes to pick her up in the evening, Kelly isn't home. Clifford learns from her flatmate Margo that she is visiting her ex-boyfriend, a DJ at a popular nightclub. Clifford goes in search of Kelly with Margo and her best friend CeCe. But the girls prefer to find the hunky rock star Bruno X, who is rumored to be partying somewhere in LA.

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Mescaline

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A trifle; the biggest positive point about this film is the atmosphere, but that is about all there is to say.

It doesn't really go anywhere and the characters are unfortunately not developed in a very compelling way either; there was more potential here!

2*

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That's a wrap! Drop everything!

A night out with Cynthia Gibb, Virginia Madsen, and Daphne Zuniga.

And as if that weren't worthwhile in itself, the film also provides a brilliant snapshot of the late 80s, perhaps the heyday of big-hair hairstyles. Icehouse on the soundtrack; how long ago does that seem? It reminds me of my nights in Amsterdam that got a little too out of hand back in the day, and also of the film After Hours (1985)—more epic, better, and more beautiful, and Jerry Kramer undoubtedly cast a sideways glance at that example, although his version is somewhat more human and approachable—or perhaps I should say that my neighbor girl back then could easily have passed for Daphne Zuniga, but not for Linda Fiorentino.

Calling a film like this a trifle is, on the one hand, the crux of the matter, but on the other, it completely overlooks what will turn out to be one of the most important moments of our lives for many of us. Moments you look back on occasionally with a touch of melancholy, like I do, or with which you find your love of life, like one of my other neighbors, and which so many other people are searching for—whether or not in the sense Frank Boeijen intended with his 'Journey to the End of the Night'.

Furthermore, the criticism of the emptiness of the Dutch—cough, American—is perhaps a bit too thin to really come across well. But noted nonetheless, and nicely done. It's a shame Jerry Kramer didn't get to make many more films like this. And yes, indeed, the poster is amazing.

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