Joyce Chopra’s first fiction feature, “Smooth Talk,” from 1985 (available via Lincoln Center’s virtual cinema starting on Nov. 6), also offers Laura Dern her first starring role, and their keenly sympathetic collaboration heightens the drama’s anguished tension. Dern plays a fifteen-year-old California high-school student named Connie, who, during summer vacation, pushes the limits of parental constraints while flirtatiously seeking the attention of older boys. Connie’s conflicts with her mother (Mary Kay Place) and her older sister (Elizabeth Berridge) make life outside the household all the more alluring. Then a thirtysomething man (Treat Williams) notices Connie in town, spies on her, and preys on her with a terrifying blend of suavity and menace. Dern’s fiercely thoughtful stillness, matched by the tremulous empathy of Chopra’s direction, brings out Connie’s ardent yet wary curiosity and frozen panic alike. Chopra films Connie’s rambles with friends in a shopping mall and at the movies with an apprehensive hush as the danger of male aggression grows nearer.
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