Foxes (1980)

Sixteen year olds Jeanie, Annie, Madge and Deirdre are friends and high school classmates living in middle class suburban Los Angeles, they individually and collectively who are trying to navigate through the transition into adulthood and the want to stake their independence under the varying levels of adult guidance - mostly without - they currently have. They collectively see that next step of independence as living together without any adult supervision. Living with her divorced mother Mary who has returned to college in trying to stake her own independence from Jeanie's concert promoter father Bryan, Jeanie is the mother hen of the group whose house is the sanctuary for the four. She is evaluating the status of her three year relationship to boyfriend Scott as she considers college in her accelerated studies. Annie, who has to contend with the iron fist of her abusive police officer father, has become the wild child, often running away and running to casual sex, drugs and staying out all night, with Brad, a former classmate who dropped out in the need to work, steadfastly by her side even when she's with other males. Madge is the one still closest to childhood in being the least experienced, sexual or otherwise. She has yet to tell anyone the extent of her relationship to Jay, he well out of his teens, the two purportedly in love. And Deirdre is the flirt who is stringing along a few boys.