Released two years after Robert Stigwood's youth market success, Saturday Night Fever, Times Square was meant to capture the same audience that flocked to that musical story of young life in New York City.

Times Square was too unconventional for a mass audience and Stigwood's production is now something of a cult film for gay and lesbian audiences who can readily see a lesbian romance between its two main characters. Intentional or not, Nicky and Pamela seem undeniably to be sharing a touching, implicitly romantic relationship.

Times Square is a music-filled story of two runaway teenage girls who find each other on the streets of New York. Nicky is tough, eccentric and full of rebellious spirit, while Pamela is more timid and thoughtful. Together they explore New York's inner city-dreaming, plotting and learning a great deal from each other. Their funny, touching story climaxes in a mass demonstration/party in Times Square after they go on the radio and call for all teenage girls to break free from family and convention and take to the streets.

Robin Johnson and Trini Alvarado give remarkable performances as Nicky and Pamela, and the film features songs by Talking Heads, The Ramones, Patti Smith, The Cure, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, and The Pretenders.