"If your broken heart should need repair, then I am the man to see. I whisper sweet things, you tell all your friends, they'll come running to me."
- James Taylor
Innocence on trial in the forest of cubs and wolves. About as close to a time capsule of the 1980s as I've ever seen, Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk paints a hazy yet acute likeness of teenage angst and sexual awakening. The rebellious sore thumb of an archetypal working classβ¦