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The Legend of Billie Jean
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.
1985 · Directed by Matthew Robbins · 95 min · Action · Comedy · Drama · 27 frames
Tagline
When you're seventeen, people think they can do anything to you. Billie Jean is about to prove them wrong.
Crew
- Written by: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner
- Cinematography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
- Edited by: Cynthia Scheider
- Music: Craig Safan
- Production design: Ted Haworth
- Produced by: Rob Cohen
Cast
- Helen Slater as Billie Jean
- Keith Gordon as Lloyd
- Christian Slater as Binx
- Richard Bradford as Pyatt
- Martha Gehman as Ophelia
- Yeardley Smith as Putter
- Barry Tubb as Hubie
- Dean Stockwell as Muldaur
- Peter Coyote as Ringwald
- Mona Lee Fultz as Donna Davy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions, The Guber-Peters Company
- Box office: $3,099,497
- Themes: sexual abuse, chase, runaway, texas, fugitive, girl heroine, female protagonist, false accusations, attempted rape, social justice
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