# Female coming of age movie ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614 "2021-01-15T18:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/1 "2021-01-15T18:20:51Z")
I sometimes contemplate asking about this one when a movie ID question comes up. I saw part of it a few years back on MeTV or similar. Filmed probably in the 1980s, set earlier. Pair of early teen girls. Takes place in a city. Possibly a scene in a train or subway. One of the actresses, IIRC, went on to some minor but mostly past fame, but I forgot who it was. The one moment I really remember is the two girls lying outside talking and one mentioning how she wanted to meet some handsome man who wiuld take her and ravish her, and I thought about how “ravish” means “rape” and it isn’t likely a modern movie would contain a line like that. (And now I’m waiting for most of the thread to be an irrelevant tangent on the definition of “ravish”.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/2 "2021-01-15T18:45:47Z")
Maybe for some odd reason they didn’t mean the archaic definition. rav·ish /ˈraviSH/ _verb_ 1. ARCHAIC seize and carry off (someone) by force. “there is no assurance that her infant child will not be ravished from her breast” 2. LITERARY fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture. “ravished by a sunny afternoon, she had agreed without even thinking” [Times Square](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081635/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_33) with Trini Alvarado perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/3 "2021-01-15T19:04:53Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > [Times Square](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081635/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_33) with Trini Alvarado perhaps? Looks a lot more edgy than what I remember. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/4 "2021-01-15T19:08:51Z")
**The World of Henry Orient** by chance ? Peter Sellers plays the title character, but the story is really about the 2 pre-teen girls who become obsessed (stalk) with him. But it’s a bit older than 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/5 "2021-01-15T19:19:05Z")
For the “feel” of the movie and the age of the actresses, a while back someone mentioned _Little Darlings_ with Tatum O’Neil in a thread and that sounded close enough that it might be it, but it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/6 "2021-01-16T03:38:03Z")
Maybe Old Enough? Takes place in New York City, a very young Alyssa Milano has a small part. > **[Old Enough (1984) - IMDb](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087837/)** > > Old Enough: Directed by Marisa Silver. With Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Alyssa Milano. Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to... ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/7 "2021-01-16T09:04:29Z")
Two more longshots: Rich in Love That Night Both 1992 Longer shot: The Wild Life(1984) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-coming-of-age-movie-id/930614/8 "2021-01-16T09:22:11Z")
You’d probably remember if it was Australian, so _Puberty Blues_ is an unlikely option. Also, no recognisable names, but I submit it anyway.