Based on the short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", by Joyce Carol Oates, this film chronicles a 15-year-old girl, Connie's (Laura Dern), sexual awakening in the Northern California suburbs. Her experimentations begin to get out of hand when the mysterious Arnold Friend (Treat Williams) takes an interest in her. Creepy hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Laura Dern is the daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Her great-grandfather was governor of Utah. Dern played daughter to real-life mother Diane Ladd in 5 movies: Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001), Rambling Rose (1991), Wild at Heart (1990) and White Lightning (1973).
Um...wow, for about the first 70 minutes of this 92 minute movie everything was normal and pretty quite. Laura Dern was solid a s a young teenage girl who was out growing her childhood and stepping out into society to discover herself...and then Treat Williams showed up and everything got really freaking creepy. You go away from this movie wondering what the heck happened. Treat Williams was very smarmy. It was just creepy. And did I mention that it was creepy?
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That's about how the short story is, too. Nice normal, self-involved slightly whiney teen and then....yikes. It is one of my favorite short stories, though, so I'll have to see this. Not meaning to be a big spoiler, but does he kill her at the end?
Well, Bucky, if you are going to watch it...
Does he kill her in the story?
If you want me to tell you PM me on Filmwise. So I don't spoil it for everyone else.
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