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Plot. In the fictional Southern California town of Port Kirby, almost 18 year old teenage Julie Thurston joins her friends Cathy, Francine, and Dana on a hitchhiking circuit that is popular among the teen girls in the town.
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker ★ 1982. Teen girl ignores family restrictions and police warnings about a homicidal rapist stalking the area and continues to thumb rides to her job at a beach resort.
Françoise, horrified by Vladek’s racism, compares his remarks about the hitchhiker to something a Nazi might say about a Jew. Vladek brushes off this criticism, telling Françoise that Jews and “shvartsers” are not comparable.
Sherman Alexie's writing style is lively and exuberant, and his narrator, the teenage Arnold, leaps from one topic to the next. So what do we get in between those leaps? Why pictures, of course. Ellen Forney's many illustrations offer comical insight into whatever Arnold is experiencing at the moment.
Sep 21, 1979 · Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker: Directed by Ted Post. With Dominique Dunne, Dick Van Patten, Katherine Helmond, James Carroll Jordan. Teenage Julie Thurston has no wheels, so she hitchhikes to get around. Unfortunately, a psychopath is roaming the highways, picking up young girls and raping them.
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- Drama
- Ted Post
- 1979-09-21
Summary: Chapter 1. Outside Fairbanks, Alaska, an electrician named Jim Gallien picks up a teenage hitchhiker who introduces himself as Alex. Gallien is concerned that Alex, who claims to be 24, is underprepared for the several months’ stay he plans in Alaska’s Denali National Park.
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Overview. A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.
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