four teenage girl in a suburb of los angeles get into all kind of trouble represent party and drug and cop and mixed up parent and old boyfriend . jodie foster and sort of the mother hen of the pack and try keep everyone together like a family ( like the family unit she never have ) and and the heartbreaking thing about the movie be that she can not . slowly and everyone grow up and go away . that precise plot point and though underscored throughout and be unfortunately tamper with . do we really need a long sequence with scott baio outracing a car full of thug on his skateboard . or an even longer sequence also with baio where foster have a strange soliloquy about the pain of illusion . some of the dialogue in fact be downright loopy and and i do not much care for an edit late in the film that segue clumsily from a death to a wedding . but these be nitpicks in what be basically a very sensitive story about the loss of a tight bond . and jodie face at the end speaks volume . if viewer do get choke up at the end and the movie have earn this . it doesn not pander for tear or ask for sympathy . it show u an example of friendship and hop we understand . from .