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Mouth to Mouth
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Mouth to Mouth reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 47 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.5 out of 10
based on 10 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Ellen Page, Beatrice Brown, August Diehl, Diana Greenwood, PatrĂ­cia Guerreiro, Jefferson Guzman, Maxwell McCabe Lokos, Eric Thal, and Natasha Wightman

Sherry is searching for a place to belong where she can still be herself. She thinks she has found this in SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge. She takes off in SPARK's camper van as they cross Europe recruiting a membership of the down and out. (Artistic License)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Alison Murray  
DIRECTED BY: Alison Murray  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: May 19, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK / Germany 

What The Critics Said

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70
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
A rough but boldly imaginative first feature by British-Canadian writer-director Alison Murray.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus.
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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Canadian-born choreographer Alison Murray draws on her own experiences as a 15-year-old runaway living in squats and on the streets, in her feature-filmmaking debut, which is a clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.
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50
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Filmmaker Alison Murray drew on her own experiences, but Mouth to Mouth would have benefited from more focus and fewer dance sequences.
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50
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
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50
Variety Dennis Harvey
Emerges an uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.
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50
Village Voice Luke Y. Thompson
Murray's story has the no-holds-barred look and feel of a '70s movie, but her digressions into modern dance are a tad unwelcome.
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40
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
As the film progresses, however, Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
A grim little drama about a young woman's experiences with a left-wing cult, Alison Murray's debut feature suffers from disjointed storytelling and myriad other problems, including a bizarre reliance on modern dance sequences to interrupt the action.
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30
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The upbeat ending can't erase the lingering aura of being trapped in an insane asylum with the Manson family.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chad S. gave it a7:
When Harry(Eric Thal) takes away Sherry's innocence, she has half of her feminine wiles; a half-shaved head, but the older man is lured into temptation nevertheless by her nubile mystique. In cases of sexual misconduct, a man will blame the woman for turning him on. Sherry's partly-bald pate neutralizes this wrongful claim because sex is often more about power than desire. It doesn't matter if Sherry(Ellen Page) has beautiful hair or not. Harry wants to own her. "Mouth to Mouth" is more avant-garde(modern dance replaces dialogue in some instances) than your average run-of-the-mill indie. "Mouth to Mouth" gets interesting when it dawns on the viewer that this neo-collective of free-spirits is actually a cult.

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