1976 was an interesting year for Jodie Foster, with four major film releases, all very different.
And all at the age of fourteen.
There was Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which featured Ms. Foster as a prostitute opposite Robert DeNiro’s iconic Travis Bickle; Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone, a musical send-up featuring an all children/teen cast portraying gangsters where she played a moll; Freaky Friday, a Disney film opposite Barbara Harris where she and her mother swap personalities and spend the day in each other’s bodies.
And The Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, a French-Canadian thriller where Foster plays Rynn Jacobs, a girl who lives with her absentee poet father in Long Island after relocating from England, who is also the object of affection and curiosity for her landlady’s pedophile son, played by Martin Sheen.
Dark and significantly creepy, The Girl Who Lives Down The Lane features some great performances and is quintessential and essential viewing. Check it out after the jump.
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