A coming-of-age story, ‘80s nostalgia, and a thriller collide in Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, adapted from a short story by famed author Joyce Carol Oates. At the center of the film is Connie (Laura ...

Filmmaker Joyce Chopra is no stranger to Harvard Square. In 1958, fresh from graduating Brandeis University, she and pal Paula Kelly opened Club 47 on Mt. Auburn Street, modeling it after the Parisian ...

Smooth Talk, the 1985 Laura Dern breakout, has gotten a restoration and re-release after being ignored in its day. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Free-spirited 15-year-old Connie Wyatt is too young to drive, but not too young to drive the boys crazy. She also wants to escape the boredom of family farm life. Her suspicious mother wants to keep ...

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.