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Thanks for the memories!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Times Square is rightly regarded as a cult item. It is one of those classic could-have-been movies... a potentially great, offbeat indie film with some terrific elements, which was sadly let down by some naff story/script elements and especially by the regrettable interference of producer Robert Stigwood, who was determined to make a punk version of Saturday Night Fever, but wouldn't let director Alan Moyle make it his way. Stigwood sacked him before the film was complete, cutting a number of scenes including those that e presented a clear exposition what was intended to be a lesbian relationship between Nicky and Pammy, and shoehorning some howling duds (a Bee Gees track in a punk movie??) into the otherwise solid punl/New Wave soundtrack, just to pad it out to a double album.Sure, not all of it works .... The DJ subplot is frankly woeful, poorly written and badly handled, and whilst Tim Curry does his best, it comes off as pretty cringeworthy today. But this film is definitely worth seeing just for the powerhouse punk performance of 15yo first-timer Robin Johnson, who was recruited straight off the street and proceeded to act everyone else in this movie right off the screen. She is *electrifying*, really magnetic, the camera loves her, and she gives everything to the part. That has to be admired, it shines through still, and it is an absolute tragedy that what should have been a big career never took off, through no fault of her own. Her performance of her own song, "Damned Dog", at the club, is terrific, and if the film had allowed more of that kind of action in, it really could have gone somewhere. Trini Alvarado too is admirable, as restrained as Johnson is out-there.The film is of course also a marvellous visual time capsule of New York in all its seedy, decayimg late 1970s glory ... the Times Square porno pits, the grungy street life, the ruined piers ... sadly not the film it should have been, but when it works, you get tantalising glimpses of what a great little film this nearly was, and Robin Johnson deserves an honorary Oscar.

Read some of the reviews in here,and I keep wonderin if we're all talking bout the same movie. Cause this is absolutely garbage. Poorly edited,poorly directed,poorly performed,decent soundtrack,but it can't save the movie.The story is all over the place,but the gist of it is: Two girls running away.One from the law, the other from her preacher politician dad.Who seem to be intended on proving that there's something wrong with his daughter. They runaway together and hole up in different abandoned buildings.Without any real plan There was supposedly some lesbian love in the picture,but it got dropped.. The one running from the law is clearly really mental ill.Though they don't really dare touch into the subject,too deeply. The biggest problem is that the scenes are so poorly put together,and acted.You don't really understand what's going on,or what drives the character.All of a Sudden they have a band and fans. A radio dj. who've been tracking them.And that has received leathers,from the politician's daughter, they all of a sudden turn on,even though he done nothing but helping them.There are a lot of scenes that don't make sense.Like the two of them going around dropping TV-sets from rooftops,you never get why,or what point they are trying to makeI got the impression the director was trying for something that never quite got made.I can see some parallels to a later 80s movie that was called certain fury(Every other 80s movie, had the name fury in it) Which has much of the same storyline,but in a more raw realistic way.I can also see some similarities to the fab,stains,with diane lane And I can definitely see Pump up the volume in it.Maybe that was the movie he was trying to make.All in all this was a terrible movie

'Times Square' is a film about a young girl named Pamela (Trini Alvarado) whose father is determined to clean up the sleazy streets of New York. Pamela is a shy and timid girl whose nervousness lands her in a hospital for tests. Pamela's roommate at the hospital is a troubled girl named Nicky, played wonderfully by actress Robin Johnson.Nicky talks Pamela into escaping the hospital and the two rough it on the streets of New York. Nicky is used to living the wild life, but Pamela has never escaped the clutches of her overprotective father. Nicky and Pamela start a rock group while word spreads thanks to radio DJ Johnny, played by the sensational Tim Curry. The girls become heroes to young folks all over the town, and girls begin dressing in trash bags, the famous look created by the "Sleaze Sisters". Pamela decides she wants to go home, and Nicky does not it take the news well. While on the air, Nicky has a mental breakdown and announces a concert on top of a building. This film is widely unknown, but there are many who look at it as one of the greatest cult films of all time. The soundtrack features incredible artists such as Roxy Music and The Cure. If any film paints a picture of life in The Big Apple during the '70s, it is the fabulously entertaining 'Times Square'.

This is an excellent film with an equally good soundtrack. You may never get the chance to see this film...i understand that it is deleted now...but if you ever get the chance, watch it! I have the soundtrack and it's difficult to say which is better, the film or the album.Anyway, Pamela and Nicky are the main characters and they are as different as it is possible to be. The story takes you through their meeting in a psychiatric ward, to their escape and through to their road to rock stardom. Try and think back to the times when you had that hint of rebellion in you...and if you can get a copy of this film, do so!