Smooth Talk

Connie Wyatt (Laura Dern), fifteen, spends her summer on beach trips and mall afternoons, flirting with boys and slipping out from under the eye of her mother, Katherine (Mary Kay Place). Then a stranger, Arnold Friend (Treat Williams), starts turning up in the places she goes. Joyce Chopra, adapting a Joyce Carol Oates story, lets the summer haze run warm and slow until it changes.