Genre: | Drama |
Director: | Mary Lambert |
Starring: | Mark Dacascos Natasha Gregson Wagner María Celedonio |
Theme Music Composer: | Hummie Mann |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Lou Arkoff David Giler Debra Hill Willie Kutner |
Location: | Los Angeles |
Editor: | Gordon Antell |
Cinematography: | Sandi Sissel |
Runtime: | 82 minutes |
Company: | Showtime |
Network: | Showtime |
Dragstrip Girl is a 1994 American drama film directed by Mary Lambert.
Dragstrip Girl originally aired on the cable television network Showtime on September 2, 1994 as part of the anthology series, Rebel Highway. As with other films in the series its name is taken from a 1950s B-movie (Dragstrip Girl) but its plot bears no resemblance to that film.
Johnny is a bad guy trying to go straight. He becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl rebelling against her parents by pretending to go steady with him. This film is set against the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles.
In a review for The A.V. Club, reviewer Nathan Rabin wrote that "the film has dreamy, ethereal atmosphere to spare, but Lambert and screenwriter Jerome Gary fail to fill their evocative '50s dreamscape with sympathetic or interesting characters."[1]