The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Marisa Silver’s Old Enough. Written and directed by Marisa Silver and starring Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest and Neill Barry, Old Enough was the first Grand Jury Prize winner at the newly rebranded Sundance Film Festival.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/24/movies/screen-old-enough-about-2-young-friends.html), Gerald Peary in Maclean’s (https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1984/10/1/showing-off-growing-up), and Time Out (https://www.timeout.com/movies/old-enough).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1984 installment featuring the Best Picture Oscar winner, Milos Forman’s Amadeus.