‘I never pass up a rewatch’: why Valley Girl is my feelgood movie

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The latest in our series of writers explaining their most rewatched comfort films brings us back to 1980s LAAs a teenager growing up in the 1990s, I was deeply obsessed with all things 1980s pop culture. Chalk it up to nostalgia for my Care Bears-filled childhood – or a stubborn adolescent desire to separate myself from the Dave Matthews Band-loving, khaki-wearing kids at my high school. (Mission accomplished: it’s safe to say I was the only person I knew rocking a bandana tied around my pants l