“Fair is fair!” I remember shouting the war-cry from this 1985 rebellious-teen drama around the schoolyard as if it were Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death.” The whole thing is probably pretty laughable today, but back then I was totally stirred by the movie’s take on youthful revolt, to say nothing of my crush on Helen Slater. She’s cute and spunky as the titular Billie Jean, a young Texas chick who takes no guff from guys and watches over her brother (Christian Slater, no relation, in an unfortunate blonde moptop that makes him look like Corey Feldman’s stunt double). When her bro’s scooter is mauled by some punks, Billie goes to demand compensation from one of the punk’s dad, who’s basically an old perv and tries to do some mauling of his own on her. My girl Billie shoots the coot on the shoulder and takes to the road as fugitives, hounded by the police, snoopy journalists whipping up a media frenzy, and other kids who see them as, like, totally cool outlaws. It wants to be sort of a junior-high Bonnie and Clyde, but it’s hard to be a rebel when you have to be home at seven for supper. But about Slater—she’s terrific in a potentially ridiculous role (teenage Joan of Arc?), and later on, when she dons a punkish, short-cropped ‘do and a defiant single earring when confronting those who wronged her, she rocked my preteen self pretty hard. Whatever happened to her, or to all those ‘80s starlets who would grace cheesy movies? Say, there’s an idea for a top-10 list…