TIMES SQUARE (1980) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Allan Moyle
Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Tim Curry,
Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof, David Margulies
Two teenaged girls, the daughter of a city councilman and a reckless street kid, escape from the psych ward together, steal an ambulance, and embark on a life of adventure on the New York streets. An adolescent fantasy with a full-throttle performance by Robin Johnson as the swaggering, go-for-broke outcast, Nicky. Tim Curry plays the radio D.J. who provides the girls with on-the-air encouragement and publicity from his perch overlooking Times Square. Somebody went on a thrift-store binge to come up with all the cool costumes, and the soundtrack (the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, etc.) is a time capsule of punk-era hits. The climactic rooftop concert echoes the Beatles' "Let It Be", while anticipating both the 1997 German movie "Bandits" and "Empire Records" (1995), another Allan Moyle film.
