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Bookmark this pageConfessions of a Suburban Girl (1992)
Director: Susan Seidelman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
In this slight documentary (commissioned by BBC Scotland) which explores changing sexual attitudes, Seidelman returns to her home town of Huntingdon Valley, just outside Philadelphia, to search out childhood friends. Interspersing interviews with clips from her films, she traces the interest in 'bad girls' which runs through her work to a youth spent in suburbia, when tough-nut Italians wore the coolest clothes and looked like being the hottest dates. Bitter-sweet passages contrast youthful expectations with adult reality, but such hopeless Seidelman efforts as Cookie and She-Devil don't bear up under the weight of this analysis.Author: CM
Cast & crew
Director: Susan Seidelman
Producer: Jonathan Brett
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 50 mins
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