September 30, 1955 (originally titled 9/30/55) is a 1977 drama film written and directed by James Bridges and starring Richard Thomas.

The radio disk jockey, while reading the morning news on-air, makes a brief announcement of James Dean's death.

Jimmy J. sculpts an Academy Award statuette out of mud, strips to his underwear, covers himself in dirt and wet sand, and conducts a ceremony to summon Dean's spirit.

Fellow student Eugene joins Jimmy J. and Hanley as they leave the campus once again, and they stop to pick up Billie Jean, finding her dressed like the character Vampira (a real-life paramour of James Dean), wearing heavy makeup and a black cape.

That night, the group wreaks havoc at the local cemetery, but when the police arrive, Billie Jean drops a candelabrum and her cape catches on fire, leaving her badly burned.

Three weeks later at the homecoming parade, Jimmy J. arrives on a motorcycle, sees Charlotte riding a float and climbs aboard to speak with her.

He asks her forgiveness, as he is leaving for California to visit the spot where Dean died, and begs her to speak, since her mother, Melba Lou, has expressed her intentions to send her to a sanitorium for electroshock treatment in the hope of ending her muteness.

Speaking for the first time, Billie Jean yells at him to "stop it," begs not to be sent to the sanitorium, and demands that he shatter her mirrors so that she cannot see her scarred body.