Girls Just Want to Have Fun
by Alan Metter
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Actor: Ed Lauter, Helen Hunt, Lee Montgomery, Morgan Woodward, Sarah Jessica ParkerDirector: Alan Metter
Cinematographer: Thomas E. Ackerman
Editor: David Rawlins
Producer: Chuck Russell
Producer: James G. Robinson
Producer: Robert F. Lyons
Producer: Stuart Cornfeld
Writer: Amy Spies
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
Published: 2001-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Movie Review: Dancing in Heaven
Summary: 5 Stars
well I would rate this higher if the stars had allowed.
This is the story of Janey Glenn (parker) who tries out for a dance contest after watching dance tv, who are looking for a new couple to star on there show, Janey and her friend Lynne stone (Helen Hunt), both try out but lynne doesn't make it, cause Natalie (Holly Gayniar?) Pays out her partner to ruin her chances, but Janey does and is paired up with Jeff Melane (Lee Montgomery), at first the two don't connect. In the meantime Natalie learns that Janey doesn't have permission to be out of school and calls her father to say she's not in choir practice, so Lynne and Janey have to act fast by pretending Janey almost spun to death in Gymnastics try-outs. Janey and Lynne find out that Natalie is having a ball, so they distribute flyers to social deliquents, punks and outcasts who gatecrash the ball. Natalie Declares war; for the time being Romance developes between Janey and Jeff, there Dancing becomes co-ordinated and their screen chemistry is dynamite, feel good, she sneaks out to dance and be with Jeff as they prepare for the contest, all falls apart when Jeff runs into Jp Sands, Natalies father who says he could put Jeff's dads job on the line if he dances in the contest, Janey and Jeff have an argument, then She gets caught sneaking into her home, setting off the alarm, she is grounded. Jeff talks with his dad who encourages him to continue in the contest anyway saying he'll worry about Jp Sands, the moral is that Janey and Jeff dance in the contest, they win, becoming the new dance tv regulars, Natalie sulks, Lynne becomes the New Miss Dance Tv. Happy ending.
This is a feel-good chick flick, full of music, dance, romance, a good cast, well worth the watch, even to gogle at Lee Montgomery who is hot and sexy, also to see Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt and Shannon doherty in their earlier roles.
When I watch this movie, I imagine being Janey and wish I was with Jeff in that time, Dancing on dtv and having lynne stone as my best friend. There are a few websites dedicated to this Movie and the Soundtrack is well worth purchasing also the best place being ebay, if you cannot purchase this soundtrack here on Amazon, contact thomas.sillifant@virgin.net, the sountrack to this movie includes the songs:
1)Come On Shout
2)On The Loose
3)I can Fly
4)Dancing In Heaven
5)Girls Just want to have Fun
6)Dancing in the street
7)Too cruel
8)Technique
9)Wake Up The Neighbourhood
The soundtrack contains versions from the movie not the original artists, apart from a newer version of this soundtrack that contains a couple of Cyndi Lauper dance mixs and two songs by Cyndi Lauper from the Goonies Movie.
Summary of Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt dance their way through "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", a glorious example of 1980s kitsch. Janey (Parker), the new girl at a Catholic high school in Chicago, dreams of becoming a dancer on "Dance TV". With the help of new wave hipster Lynne (Hunt), Janey enters a dance contest and gets paired with Jeff (Lee Montgomery), a rebel in spandex, and the two are soon smitten with each other. Unfortunately, they've made an enemy of a snooty rich girl, who vows to take them down. Everything about "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is cheap and cheesy--it doesn't even have the Cyndi Lauper version of the title song--but that doesn't make it any less goofily entertaining, particularly when a debutante ball is wrecked by a bizarre combination of punk rockers and female bodybuilders. Featuring a very young Shannen Doherty as Jeff's little sister. "--Bret Fetzer"Similar DVD Movies
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