“Valley Girl” by Rachel Goldenberg (2020)

Rene Hirsch
MdW (movies directed by women)
1 min readAug 31, 2020

Movies directed by women

2020, a turbulent year!

First Feature

Weak personages

Another Romeo & Juliet / West Side Story story
Choreography and music are not too bad in the first half but loose their sharp edges when Hollywood decides to merge punk and pop
Remake of Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,8
Metascore 5,4
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,2
IMDB 5,3
Average critics 5,0
Average public 7,3

Cast: Jessica Rothe, Josh Whitehouse, Ashleigh Murray, Chloe Bennet, Peyton List, Mae Whitman, Jessie Ennis, Logan Paul, Allyn Rachel
Director: Rachel Goldenberg
Writer (story by): Andrew Lane, Wayne Crawford
Writer: Amy Talkington
Cinematographer: Adam Silver
Editor: Julia Wong
Composer: Roger Neill

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