I was so honored, I just about died. Because those songs, to me, when I was growing up, were just everything. I actually wrote the songs she does. It's expensive to buy period music, so I hired myself for free. The film is anchored in a particular time and place of American girlhood.
Contraception is a biggie.
People actually have been upset about the movie's handling of bulimia, because we didn't deal with it too much as a story line. But in those days, we didn't have a name for it, and we didn't really know what to do about it. It was bewildering. I knew that girls who threw up were upset about being overweight, but nobody knew anything more about it. All rights reserved.