Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Acting
Laura Dern at 17—every micro-expression is devastating.
Direction
Chopra makes the mundane feel like a trap closing.
Cinematography
Golden hour suburbia that curdles into threat.
Director
Joyce Chopra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'—Oates based Arnold Friend on real serial killer Charles Schmid, the 'Pied Piper of Tucson.'
Chopra fought to keep the ambiguous ending; producers wanted explicit violence. Her restraint makes the horror permanent.
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