MODERN GIRLS

US, 1986, 84 minutes, Colour.
Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibbs, Daphne Zuniga, Clayton Rohner.
Directed by Jerry Kramer.

Modern Girls is a piece of froth about three girls, their jobs, their social life, romance and a night on the town - with an extraordinary number of mishaps. The three girls are attractive young actresses: Cynthia Gibbs, Daphne Zuniga and Virginia Madsen. Clayton Rohner, from TV's daytime-soaps, is pleasantly quiet as the hero (and doubles up as the English rock star).

The film is fairly inconsequential - though it probably mirrors the experience of a number of young adults in the American cities.

1. Pleasant comedy? Drama?

2. The modern city, workplaces, apartments, cars, the streets, nightclubs? The range of music, the nightclubs, songs? The musical score?

3. The title, focus on the girls, their lifestyle, ambitions? Romance, relationships? Modern?

4. The introduction to the three girls at their work: Kelly, Margo, C.C. - and her being sacked? Their going home with each other? The apartment? Their routines at home? The preparation for going out?

5. The three girls and their characters, interests, strengths, weaknesses? Their relationships? Going to the bars? Clifford, survival, his infatuation with Kelly, the other two leading him on, keeping him waiting such a long time, going out with him?

6. The nightclubs, the men and women, the style, getting drinks on other people's accounts? Clifford and his feeling out of place? Dancing? Kelly and the break-up? Margo and her search? C.C. and her infatuation with the English rock singer, contriving to fall on him? His infatuation and search for her?

7. The search for the singer, the other men encountered during the evening, friendships, brutality and attack? The effect of the night on the three girls? Enjoyment, weariness? Disillusionment? Clifford and his continued support - moral, money, the car (and the flat tyres)?

8. The contact with the agent of the rock singer, his infatuation with C.C? The rush to the airport, the farewell?

9. Pleasantly inconsequential look at a night in the life of three modern girls?