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Lost and Delirious
Lions Gate Films Inc.
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Piper Perabo,
Jessica Paré,
Mischa Barton,
Jackie Burroughs,
and
Graham Greene
A hauntingly evoked tale of three adolescent girls' first loves, discovery of sexual passion, and search for identity. (Lions Gate Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Judith Thompson
Susan Swan (novel The Wives of Bath)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Léa Pool
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 11, 2001
Video: December 11, 2001
Theatrical: July 6, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is a movie for those who sometimes, in the stillness of the sleepless night, are so filled with hope and longing that they feel like -- well, like uttering wild goat cries to the moon. You know who you are.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Never takes off, and much of the time Pool seems lost herself, resorting to clichés, redundancy, and dead-end allegory.
75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Lost and Delirious doesn't need metaphors for the power of strength and healing. All the passion and pain it needs glows ferociously in the eyes of its young women.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense, and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is combined with enormous vulnerability.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Pool captures the crazed urgency of first love -- the feeling of a passion so fierce that even a disapproving society can't crush it.

75
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is tempered by enormous vulnerability.
70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Nicely written as well as filmed.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Sophisticated in that European way and predictable in that Hollywood way.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Perfectly cast, if insufficiently dramatized.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Piper Perabo is a revelation -- and Barton is maturing into a sensitive, subtle performer with a marvelously expressive face.

60
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Blessed with a lovely score and strong acting, but crippled by an awkward, mawkish script.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Perabo gives a fairly impressive and flashy performance, even when the script descends into melodrama.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Will divide audiences between those whose hearts have been tugged into going along with the picture way past common sense and those who find it impossible to accept the film's credibility-defying developments.

50
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
The movie is beautiful to look at (lensed by Pierre Gill) as are the girls, but it takes its clunky message so seriously that it often verges on silliness.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
It has a frenetic, unsettled edginess that chafes against its serene, woodsy, upscale private school setting.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
A startling letdown after (Léa Pool's) plaintive, understated coming-of-age tale "Set Me Free."

40
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
It works in so many ways except for the script, which sounds laughable. And sadly, when Lost and Delirious trips over its own two feet, it is laughable. It needs to follow Paulie's advice and rage more.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Equally earnest and unconvincing.

30
Variety
David Rooney
All the dramatic stops are pulled out as the script goes into serious literary overload.

20
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Isn't much more than a self-indulgent picture about the feeble delirium of a lovesick girl -- lightweight stuff that labors to seem terribly important.


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