Directed by Jim Abrahams • 1990 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins
In a role practically tailor-made for her brand of angsty outsider cool, Winona Ryder stars as Dinky Bossetti, a fifteen-year-old antisocial goth girl in small-town Ohio whose rebellious attitude makes her an outcast at school. When she discovers that the town’s most illustrious former resident, Roxy Carmichael—who left home fifteen years ago to pursue fame in Hollywood—is set to return, Dinky sees a chance to leave her misfit life behind once and for all.
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