Valley Girl is a 1983 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and written and produced by Wayne Crawford and Andrew Lane.
Loosely based on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the film centers on the romance between a valley girl (Deborah Foreman) and a city punk (Nicolas Cage).
Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen appear in supporting roles.
At the end of a shopping trip with her friends, Loryn, Stacey, and Suzi, Julie runs into Tommy and breaks up with him.
Randy waits in the shower for Julie to enter the bathroom as various party goers come and go, talking about and trying to have sex, and doing drugs.
A heartbroken Randy gets severely drunk, makes out with his ex-girlfriend, and nearly gets into a fight with a gang of low riders before Fred saves him.
Stacey reveals Tommy made a reservation at the Valley Sheraton Hotel as an after-prom "surprise" for Julie.
Tommy and Julie ride to the prom in a rented stretch limousine, Randy and Fred arrive shortly after and sneak backstage.
When the prom king and queen are announced, the curtain pulls back to reveal Randy beating up Tommy.
As the happy couple ride into the night toward the Valley Sheraton, Julie removes Tommy's ID bracelet, which had been a sign of the relationship between the two during the entire film, and throws it out the window.
[4] Zappa explored the possibility of making a "Valley Girl" film and received inquiries from several studios, though nothing materialized.
The site's consensus states: "With engaging performances from its two leads, Valley Girl is a goofy yet amiable film that both subverts and celebrates the cheerful superficiality of teen comedies.
[10] The soundtrack features a host of new wave recording artists including the Psychedelic Furs as well as the Plimsouls and Josie Cotton, both of whom appeared in the film.
was a regional hit in Southern California in 1981, placing #5 on KROQ-FM's Top 106 songs of the year and "He Could Be the One" from her album Convertible Music had reached #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982.
The Plimsouls' "A Million Miles Away" and the Payolas "Eyes of a Stranger" were moderate hits in 1982, reaching #11 and #22, respectively, on Billboard's Top Tracks chart.
[12][13] The planned release of a soundtrack album on Epic Records (catalog number FE 38673) was cancelled due to the clearance problems with some of the songs.
More common is a counterfeit copy which is distinguished by the misspelling of the title as "Valley Girls" on the spine of the album cover.
[16][17] In November 2016, MGM announced that a remake of Valley Girl was being planned, to be directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg.
[20] In April 2017, Chloe Bennet, Ashleigh Murray, Jessie Ennis, and Logan Paul joined the cast.
On March 1, 2018, MGM announced that the film had been pulled from its schedule because of ongoing controversies surrounding Logan Paul.