Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York City by its ears.
Director: Allan Moyle
Stars: Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081635/
Watched online, poor print, blurry.
20 songs in the Soundtrack; 18 are just score, 2 are performed by 1 or both of the teens, hence the Music tag.
This feels very sanitized. It takes place during the era when Time Square was X-rated, all porn films, adult book stores and hookers, not to mention whatever drug trade and robbery was going on. These 2 early teen girls somehow have no trouble with the sex trade, nor any other crime, even though they're living near this crime zone, and the 13 yo middle class girl works in a topless bar (but refused to work topless).
The girls get together before all this in a hospital, where they share a semi-private room, both being tested for the same condition (blackout/fits). Neither has anything physically wrong. But the doctors are going to prescribe anti-depressants. One girl is already on the streets, the other runs with her now that they've bonded.
TC plays a radio DJ who reaches out to the girls over the air. But the girls (or at least the street one) recognizes he's sympathetic in order to gain ratings, so she uses him back.
One of their repeated stunts is to drop tv sets from a roof, sometimes narrowly missing pedestrians, once shown landing on a car roof.
The film ends with the girls doing a "concert" from a Time Square rooftop, which is attended by teens like them, but affluent enough that we see some arriving by city bus. The cops finally close in, and the street girl jumps, but the fire dept had a net waiting. The End.
It's not a horrid film; it kept my attention for the most part. But knowing what I've documented here satisfies the curiosity that kept me alert. This is certainly not worth a second look, hence the 5.
Stigwood & more, dir. Moyle; 5
