Laura Dern makes a delightful impression here, especially in the strong first hour. As an alluring, lost teenager, you get a wonderful sense of how foolish and idealistic the age can be. She and her friends flirt with boys at the mall and put themselves in dangerous situations in attempts to win male attention.
When her innocence is lost as a mysterious stranger arrives, the film certainly loses its footing. The stranger is played intriguingly, but not brilliantly by Treat Williams. It's hardly his fault that the film loses itself at this point. It's being true to Joyce Carol Oates' story, though the ending is far less ambiguous.
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