Jennifer Jason Leigh in Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)

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Small-town ups and downs and the longings for romance past are the fodder of Grandview, U.S.A. (1984). Tidy and tight Jamie Lee Curtis stars as a 27-year-old woman struggling to maintain the demolition derby track she has inherited from her father, and callow C. Thomas Howell is the drifting high-school grad who falls under older-woman Jamie’s erotic sway. The surprisingly touching and subtle depiction of rural dreams undone includes Patrick Swayze as a lunk who hangs about the track. The flick also benefits from a dippy performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh as Swayze's increasingly less-satisfactory wife.