The Legend of Billie Jean Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Action, Drama
Director(s): Matthew Robbins
Production: TriStar Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG-13
Year:
1985
96 min
704 Views


Well there you have a woman's perspective.

I thought it was awesome.

Billie Jean went running up that escalator right there.

This guy grabbed her by her backpack and she turned

around and kicked him right in the nuts.

And kept running, it was hilarious!

Billie Jean wherever you are I love you.

Nothing in her background suggests violent and unlawful

streak exhibited in this peaceful and attractive young woman

...now subject to a statewide man hunt.

The mystery remains-

Oh my god.

...Corpus Christi ask you to call

the crime stoppers number.

Freeze!

Stop Binx! You hear me? Just stop it!

Did you see that guy freeze?

I had the drop on him. Beat your butt!

That guy was a policeman. Thought this gun was real-

he'd really kill you.

We were on TV! You should had seen it!

We on the news.

This is supper?

All we had left was 78 cent.

Let's go to Vermont. We could live in the woods.

Eat plants and leaves and stuff. Go hunting.

Wait til my dad sees this.

Who says your dad is going to see it?

He'll see it when we go home.

Look at that one. God!

I bet it looks cool in there.

I bet there's food in there.

Stop the car.

What for?

That one looks empty.

So.

What's this?

I think it's chicken.

It don't taste like chicken. When you're rich,

food isn't suppose to taste like what it is.

Ahh!!!

What you do that for?

I almost choked.

Who told you going around scaring people?

You didn't have to hit me.

You live here?

Yeah just me... and my dad. He's in Dallas.

Then it's Raymone, Gloria - who work for us.

But... they're out for the night.

You couldn't have came at a better time.

For what?

Want to be a star?

You're weird. You're Billie Jean.

Hey, Billie Jean. Billie Jean, TV, we're on TV.

Holy sh*t.

Well hello...

Hey who is he?

He lives here? What's your name?

Lloyd.

He knows who we are.

You're a dead man, Lloyd.

We're missing the news!

I'm not going to lie. It was personal with me.

And I decided to take personal action.

I don't think there is a father in this country

who wouldn't feel the same way.

Look who it is.

That sucker.

I got a teenager myself and no one has to tell me

what this younger generation is all about.

These kids are playing games with the law.

Change the channel. Who wants to hear this?

I do.

You like anything that's on the TV.

While there were no shot fired. The gang head north

from here in a late model Sudan...

Late model I wish.

...and reportedly robbed a truck stop on the boarded

community of Juliet.

I love it. We're everywhere.

...yeah, sure they had guns

that's how they got me tied up.

Liar!

...and they broke up the register and cleaned it out.

Took $427.

Great now we're thieves.

Probably took it himself.

Was there anything said during the harass? Just words.

Profanity. Vile words. They were bombed out of their minds.

Bastards! They're all bunch of liars.

I told you.

How can they say things like that?

They can say anything. We're in news now.

'I cannot live.'

Is that a boy or a girl?

'I was crying through the frost. Blessed church

bells, send my voices to me on the wind.'

It's a girl. Joan of Arc.

She dressed up as a man and

all the French followed her to fight the English.

Did she win?

Yeah and no.

She heard voices. 'Stop being a peasant,

be a soldier. France needs you. Truth. Justice.'

And she won. She beat the English.

And then...

Then what?

The French burned her...

Alive!!!

Come on in. Water.

All right!

Lloyd, you make videotapes?

All the time.

What about copies?

As many as you want.

You are absolutely right! What a great idea.

What's such a great idea?

Your sister is going to answer them

and send copies to all the TV stations. Am I right?

Oh, come on.

Where's your bathroom?

It's upstairs.

Set up your camera. I'll be right out.

She's nervous so she has to pee.

Move a little to your left.

Hello everybody!

Binx? Binx? You're in the way.

Are those uppers or downers?

For asthma. You want one.

Really?

Which one looks best?

Oh my god.

Wow.

Billie Jean... you look...

Famous.

Saint Joan.

Turn the camera on.

I'm Billie Jean Davy.

I want to set the record straight.

Binx! They're saying goodbye.

They don't have to take forever.

You could stay for awhile.

My dad won't be back for another week.

We'll just get you into trouble.

Who cares.

You're sweet.

But weird.

You're not as weird as you think you are.

Lloyd's cute, huh, Billie J?

He gave this to you?

Far out. That's what I call making an impression.

Woah. Wait up! Tapes are not going to be enough.

What do you mean?

I mean their still going to have to give you the money.

They'll just hunt you down and catch you.

Can't you see that?

Cops don't have to bargain with you.

You don't have anything they want.

I got a solution for you. A trade.

Whatever is that boy doing?

It's a trick. I saw it on TV.

What kind of trade?

I'm going to be your hostage.

Now wait. What are you talking about?

Then they have to negotiate. I'm your guarantee.

Like when you buy a car?

That's warranty.

Why you doing this?

Hey someone's here!

It's Raymome and Gloria. Quick.

Take me. I'm yours.

Oh look at this...

Port Arthur... Crystal City...

This is no damn good.

Half of these sightings are simultaneous.

Get rid of it.

Who gave you this?

She's on the air!

I'm Billie Jean Davy.

I want to set the record straight...

Oh my god.

Wow.

I'm not a liar, I'm not a thief,

and neither is my brother.

Hello ma!

Sorry that is him.

Mom I don't know when we'll be coming home but we love you.

I know people are making up stories about us.

Don't you believe them.

As for you Mr. Pyatt, you are so sleazy!

You think you can do anything you want, lie about it and we

just have to take it! Because what are we, a bunch of kids.

Well not this time.

From now on we're doing this our way.

No lying. No cheating. Fair is fair!

$608 for the scooter your son trashed. That's what you owe

and we're not turning ourselves in 'till we get it.

Fair is fair! We didn't start this. We didn't mean for this

to happen, but we're not giving this up 'til you pay.

Fair is Fair!

Lt. Ringwald? Now what?

We got a hostage.

District attorney is here.

Sorry about what happened, Mr Muldaur.

We'll get him back.

You think he was kidnapped? Don't you?

You can never tell what that boy is going to do.

You see this girl on TV?

Me and half the country.

Doesn't look like a kidnapping.

Looks like a party.

I think it was. I think this was a bunch of kids

having a fine ol'time.

What about that gun they pulled on you?

Fun and games?

I been thinking about that gun.

I'm not sure it was real.

A toy store reported a few items was stolen.

They left I.O.Us.

The kid got the drop on you with a toy gun?

Yes sir. I believe he did.

I would had liked to seen that.

These kids are smart. Got the wire service interested.

Got the networks interested.

Got to give them a lot of credit.

My son and I don't get along real well.

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Mark Rosenthal

Mark David Rosenthal is an American screenwriter and film director and long-time writing partner of Lawrence Konner. more…

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