Ahhh those teen age memories! My friends and I getting together at each others houses for sleepovers. Telling each other our deepest secrets and confiding our dreams. Battling our parents while trying to just have a good time and never NEVER trust anyone over 30!!Foxes is one of those movies that make us remember those bittersweet memories of growing pains and still trying to avoid getting into trouble. I did not grow up in L.A but I can relate to these characters in the movie. The cast and acting is really not too bad considering they are young people in the drama field. A young Jodie Foster as Jeannie who is the central character trying to keep herself and her friends sane while battling parents and the dangers of society (boys, social acceptance, high school and just anything teenagers have to face) Her best friend Annie, is a teen just hell bent on a course of self destruction, who Jeannie constantly bails out of trouble. The other two girls, Madge and Deidre are desperately trying to find their place in life by seeking social acceptance (losing virginity) and finding their one special love in their lives! Scott Baio (anyone still remember him?) He was hot property playing Cha Chi in Happy Days is a skate boarding (very popular in the 70's) boy teenager who is always on the prowl for a good time. Also look for a very YOUNG Laura Dern in the party scene! The script which was unbelievably always rewritten is very mediocre with some sappy lines. When Jeannie's Mom, played by Sally Kellerman is criticizing Jeannnie for getting into trouble, all of a sudden she says "You're all so beautiful--my hips, I hate my hips" I guess even adults go thru their growing pains as well.The soundtrack should be on a collectors list! It is very hard to find in stores and probably only available on vinyl. Donna Summer's haunting song "On The Radio is featured. It gives the film a very thoughtful feel and sometimes a sadness. The ending of the film has a very sad feel to it. We all survive our teen years but their is some sad memories that will always haunt us. Foxes is a film that seems to force us to reflect on those years and review what good or bad choices that we have made.---even if it makes us laugh or cry. This is a film for any teenager going into the growing pains and for any adult that wants to sit back and remember fond youth.

This is 2009 and this way underrated gem has lost nothing of the power it had 31 years ago. It connects a pretty wide variety of different characters and stories without appearing to be cluttered.Clothes and music might have changed over time, but in the end this is a story that will never lose its up-to-dateness. And especially this movie does the job pretty well. Of course it is cheesy at times, but very touching as well.Jodie Foster's performance is striking, and it shows that she is really a natural born actress who showed her true potential especially in her earlier movies.Don't miss this one.

One of the best portrayals of being a teen in the late 70's early 80's. Jodie Foster is simply wonderful as the one who tries to hold all of her friends together through the difficult times of being a teen in Califirnia; actually this could have been set in any city. I lived this life of parties, concerts and excess during this same era. Being 44 and looking back it is like looking back into my own memories of kids I went to school with and the things we experienced. Though the look of this movie is dated, big hair, satin jackets etc, however it certainly is still relevant. Donna Summer's "On the Radio" is such a great song and is a vital part of the fabric of this move. This is movie is so much better than the teen sex farces that seemed to proliferate after this movie came out - because it is a pretty close portrayal of what being a teen at this time was like with absent parents and lots of free time.If you haven't seen it you should...

I was just a bit young for this one, but I had to see it. There's some excellent music, which many folks have mentioned, but no one seems to notice a very rare appearance by "Angel", a now mostly ignored but once quite popular musical outfit. Wearing their trademark white outfits, they grind through "20th Century Foxes", and apparently all try to cram into the camera's field of vision. Keyboardist Gregg Giuffria remains the bands highlight, and has apparently never gotten much of a haircut, ever! Cherie Currie (ex-Runaways singer) begins a brief, but notable, acting career here, and is quite memorable alongside Jodie Foster, and the rest. (Her topless 3-D scenes in "Parasite", and her UFO sighting, in "Wavelength" kept us all watching her for a time). It's not a masterpiece, but it preserves a chunk of its period, for all to gaze upon, and wonder.