Four teenage girls hit the streets of L.A. to grow up fast in 1980's Foxes. Two of the girls are Jodie Foster and Cherie Currie, the latter being lead singer of The Runaways, and the movie feels a lot like a Runaways album--skinny, ultra-pretty girls who are simultaneously fetishised and independent. It's sort of like a kitten in a leather jacket. Sweet, cute, and we'd all like it to be as tough as it thinks it is.
Currie's character, Annie, is at the heart of most of the film's drama. She's the wild one, rebelling against her abusive cop father. She looks for trouble repeatedly and repeatedly gets more than she bargains for.
Meanwhile, Madge (Marilyn Kagan) is in love with an older man, played by an unusually restrained Randy Quaid, who genuinely seems to like her. But maybe he's not so ready to have a girl in his life who's not really old enough for the responsibility of a relationship. That's the impression you get after her friends trash his home.
Foster is the most normal of the group. She has some half-baked drama with her mother, played by Sally Kellerman, who is jealous of how much prettier young girls are than she is. It's too bad the best the movie can do is have her say that out loud.
Scott Baio has a small role to do the hero stuff and Laura Dern has an even smaller role (her first credited role) as a girl who shows up to a party.
The movie only currently seems to be on YouTube. It would be nice to some of the more exploitative shots in high def. The score is by Giorgio Morodor and it's as sexy as his scores for Cat People and Flashdance.
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