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Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) DVD Review
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) DVD Credits:
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) Directed by:
Alan Metter
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) Written by:
Amy Spies
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) Cast:
Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Shannen Doherty, Jonathan Silverman
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) Released by:
Anchor Bay
Region:
1
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) DVD Release Date:
28th April 2008
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) Synopsis:

Janey will do whatever it takes to get to be on Dance TV, even if it means lying to her parents.

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) DVD Review:

Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City, State and Main) is a shy Army brat in love with dancing. Finally fate has shone on young Janey when her father’s career finally lands her in Chicago, home of Dance TV, a dance show similar to the long running Soul Train.

After her first day at school, Janey becomes fast friends with the school free spirit Lynne (Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets, Mad About You). While watching that day’s episode of Dance TV, they see an announcement calling for a new dance team to appear on the show.

The tryouts bring every self-proclaimed dancer to the competition including the male counterparts to Lynne and Janey: friends Drew Boreman (Jonathan Silverman, Weekend at Bernie’s, Farce of the Penguin) and Jeff Malene. Jeff’s kid sister, Maggie (Shannen Doherty, Beverly Hills, 90210, Mallrats) follows the two guys around like a groupie. Janey defies her strict, conservative father and auditions for the dance show, where she finds herself moving up to the next round, where she is paired with new dance partner Jeff.

Janey and Jeff begin to work out their new routines but find it difficult to accomplish due to the meddling from the spoiled Natalie Sands (Holly Gagnier). As the duo’s routine begins to come together, their romantic relationship also begins to flourish. Despite their young love, Natalie’s interference really comes to fruition when her wealthy father and owner of the factory where Jeff’s father works, tries to blackmail Jeff in an attempt to net a victory for Natalie.

As Jeff deals with having to drop out of the competition to save his father’s job, Janey has to deal with her overprotective parents putting her on lockdown. After catching Janey sneaking back into the house late at night, her parents install a security alarm with window sensors and cut off all of the nearby branches from the tree she had climbed down so many times before.

Filmed in 1984 and originally released in 1985, Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a little dated with its music selection, hair and clothing styles and dance moves. Despite the film’s campy style and predictable conclusion, it is a fun and light movie about a girls desire to dance.

It is humorous to see some of Hollywood’s most successful actresses in one of their earliest films. The film seems to have been quite the launching board for the careers of several of the then young actors. Since making Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Sarah Jessica Parker has gone on to produce and star in one of HBO’s most successful and talked about shows, Sex and the City. Helen Hunt, meanwhile starred in her own television series across from Paul Reiser, Mad About You. She also earned herself an Academy Award for her performance as the diner waitress in As Good As it Gets, with Jack Nicholson. Shannen Doherty and Jonathan Silverman both have found success as well in Hollywood.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun is available in both full frame and widescreen formats. It features a 5.1 stereo surround sound track.

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Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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