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Blackstock100 Since: Jan, 2014
#1: Jan 28th 2014 at 11:23:14 AM

There is a movie that I can't remember the name of but it was based off of a Margaret Atwood poem. I think the movie was made in the 1970's. It is about a blonde teenage girl who rebels against her parents and starts going to this restaurant or something across the highway. She ends up meeting some older man who is really creepy. In the movie it is assumed that he rapes her when she is home alone. I can't remember the title of the movie or the poem for the life of me. If anyone knows it please tell me!

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#2: Jan 31st 2014 at 10:52:13 AM

It is not Margaret Atwood who you are thinking of, but the equally redoubtable and prolific Joyce Carol Oates, specifically the famous 1966 short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", which was adapted into a film entitled Smooth Talk in 1985. The ending to the story is even more ambiguous, but given the case that it was based on, it is quite possible that the girl is murdered at the end.

I am as surprised as you that I remembered that, although I had to double-check.

edited 31st Jan '14 10:54:32 AM by JHM

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