Smooth Talk is a 1985 film directed by Joyce Chopra, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates ' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), [3] which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid. The protagonist, Connie Wyatt, is …

Smooth Talk: Directed by Joyce Chopra. With Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Margaret Welsh. A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.

“Smooth Talk” is based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, who so often finds the materials of classic tragedy in the lives of everyday people. Although the movie is shocking, it is not sensational in the way it might have been – if it had been handled as a horror story, say, instead of as a morality play.

Currently you are able to watch "Smooth Talk" streaming on Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "Smooth Talk" on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Fandango At Home as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Fandango At Home online.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration, and it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling summertime awakening in Joyce Chopra’s Sundance-winning narrative debut—a haunting vision of innocence lost based on a celebrated short story by Joyce Carol Oates and starring Laura Dern (in her breakout performance) and Treat Wi...

"Smooth Talk" is a strange, languid coming-of-age movie that makes a surprising shift into thriller territory toward the end. It's about a young girl, played by Laura Dern, who has a strained relationship with her mother.