Modern Girls

Modern Girls is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Jerry Kramer, starring Virginia Madsen, Daphne Zuniga, and Cynthia Gibb. Set during a single night in Los Angeles, it follows two young women who, while venturing through the city's nightclub scene, befriend their roommate's blind date.

Three women in their early twenties, Margo, Kelly, and Cece, are roommates living in Los Angeles working menial jobs by day, and by night they enjoy the vibrant and decadent nightlife of the city. Margo has a boring job in telemarketing, Cece gets fired from her job at a department store, while Kelly works in a pet store and is very good at selling pets, mainly thanks to her looks.

It is Friday night and the women are getting ready for a night out on the town. However, Margo and Cece soon discover that Kelly has taken Margo's car to go meet a DJ she is infatuated with in downtown Los Angeles. Luckily, Kelly's blind date for the night, the bookish Clifford—one of her many infatuated customers—arrives to pick her up, so Margo and Cece hitch a ride with him to the club where the DJ is working. Cliffie (as Cece calls him) reluctantly tags along on a rollercoaster ride with them and learns how the women usually spend their nights out.

While at the club, popular rock star and MTV sensation Bruno X arrives, and Cece desperately manages to get his attention. A police raid on the club interrupts the two's encounter, forcing Cece and Margo to leave with Clifford. The three decide to stop at an after-hours goth bar for drinks. Cece uses a hotel matchbook Bruno had to surmise where he is staying, and convinces Clifford, who bears a striking resemblance to Bruno, to impersonate him, resulting in Clifford being forced into shooting a music video on the street.

Meanwhile, Kelly has drinks at Sharkey's bar, where another DJ named Milo offers her drugs. Cece, Margo, and Clifford go there to retrieve her and find her inebriated and surrounded by a group of lecherous men, but manage to save her from what appears to be an impending gang rape. When a rainstorm begins, Clifford stops to close the top of his convertible and accidentally blows out his tires on traffic spikes in a parking lot. The group embarks on foot along Hollywood Boulevard. A disenchanted Clifford is surprised to learn through conversation that Margo majored in comparative literature in college.

Clifford borrows a car from a driving school where he works as a driving instructor, and the group visits the exclusive Club VooDoo, which Clifford manages to infiltrate with the women after the bouncers assume him to be Bruno X. In the bathroom, a now sober Kelly tells Margo that she will tend to Clifford, to which Margo responds evasively. While Kelly dances with an inebriated Clifford, Cece learns from Marsalis, an acquaintance of Bruno X, that he is obsessed with her and has been searching for her since the club raid earlier that night. Marsalis tells Cece that Bruno has a 7:00 a.m. flight booked at the Santa Monica Airport.

A food fight breaks out in Club VooDoo when Clifford attempts to stop Kelly from leaving with Ray, one of her admirers. Kelly flees with Ray, leaving Cece, Margo, and Clifford on their own again. The three chase after Ray's Jeep and attack him when he becomes physically violent with Kelly. The four visit the police station after, where Kelly files a police report against him. After Clifford teases Margo, and the two kiss.

The group drives Cece to the airport as dawn approaches, and she is reunited with Bruno, who asks her to accompany him on tour. A flattered Cece tells him that she would miss her friends too much and instead offers him her phone number. As Bruno leaves, Clifford asks the three women what their plans are for the evening, and they playfully attack him.

Principal photography of Modern Girls began in Los Angeles on April 1, 1986.^[3]

En 1986 se lanzó la banda sonora de la película con « But Not Tonight » de Depeche Mode como primer tema. La canción se publicó como sencillo promocional en febrero de 1986 y posteriormente como sencillo de 12 pulgadas solo en Estados Unidos, acompañada de un videoclip con imágenes de Modern Girls para promocionar la película. Este vídeo se incluyó en el segundo DVD de la edición británica de 2002 de «The Videos 86–98» de Depeche Mode . Varias otras canciones utilizadas en la película no aparecieron en la banda sonora.

Modern Girls se estrenó regionalmente en otoño de 1986, con proyecciones que comenzaron el 26 de septiembre de 1986 en Victoria, Texas , ^{[ 4 ]} y el 17 de octubre de 1986 en Newport News, Virginia . ^{[ 5 ]} Se estrenó en Boise, Idaho , y Portland, Oregón , el 7 de noviembre de 1986. ^{[ 6 ] [ 7 ]}

La película se estrenó en cines en la ciudad de Nueva York y Los Ángeles el 5 de diciembre de 1986. ^{[ 3 ]} El estreno en cines tuvo una duración de 1 hora y 24 minutos y fue clasificada PG-13 por la Motion Picture Association. ^{[ 1 ]}

En Rotten Tomatoes , la película tiene una calificación del 40% basada en 5 reseñas. ^{[ 9 ]}

• Lista de películas estadounidenses de 1986

• Chicas modernas en IMDb