Movie
The Legend of Billie Jean
Overview
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.
Details
- Release date
- 1985-07-19
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions, The Guber-Peters Company
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Helen Slater as Billie Jean
- Keith Gordon as Lloyd
- Christian Slater as Binx
- Richard Bradford as Pyatt
- Martha Gehman as Ophelia
- Yeardley Smith as Putter
- Barry Tubb as Hubie
- Dean Stockwell as Muldaur
- Peter Coyote as Ringwald
- Mona Lee Fultz as Donna Davy
- John M. Jackson as Kenny's Father
- Rodney Rincon as Police Sergeant
Crew
- Matthew Robbins - Director
- Mark Rosenthal - Writer
- Lawrence Konner - Writer
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