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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Ellen Page, Ari Cohen, Max McCabe-Lokos, Erin McMurtry, SlimTwig, and Julian Richings

Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved's novel of the same name, The Tracey Fragments uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of why 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is riding out a blizzard in the back of a city bus, naked except for the tattered curtain she's wrapped in, and looking for her missing brother (whom she fears she has hypnotized). Onscreen for nearly every frame of the film, Ellen Page delivers a tour-de-force performance that cements her status as one of the most exciting young actresses today. (THINKFilm)

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Maureen Medved
DIRECTED BY:	Bruce McDonald
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: July 8, 2008 Theatrical: May 9, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	77 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...

The New York Times A.O. Scott

In the hands of a more literal-minded filmmaker The Tracey Fragments might well have been dreary and unbearable, a chronicle of florid self-pity justified by arbitrary cruelty. Instead it is fierce, enigmatic and affecting.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

I have a feeling that this is the last time we'll see a down-and-dirty Ellen Page. Her handlers have too much wrapped up in her mainstream persona to ever again allow her to do anything as daring and out of the loop as The Tracey Fragments. And that's a shame.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Even though the screen is often divided into a Mondrian-like grid, each individual box containing its own discreet moving image, McDonald's film is surprisingly fluid and easy to follow.

Village Voice Aaron Hillis

Beyond its overarching aesthetic, The Tracey Fragments co-stars Toronto rockabilly punk Slim Twig as a Tim Burton caricature of Pretty in Pink’s Duckie and boasts a score by Broken Social Scene; it would all swagger dangerously close into hipster-trash territory if not for Page's pathos and wit, honest to blog.

Variety Russell Edwards

Page is generally commanding as the self-pitying teenager, but there are several moments when, let down by the text, the young thesp obviously does not believe what she is saying.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Formally, the effect is like watching really cinematic confetti.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

It's all a bit like "Girl Interrupted" shattered into a thousand shards, but Page somehow manages to come through with a performance despite the director's distracting technique.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

A failed cinematic experiment mainly notable for its fine starring performance by a pre-"Juno" Ellen Page, The Tracey Fragments provides more evidence (not that any was needed) that an extensive use of split-screen visuals is far more irritating than arresting.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This unexceptional and uninteresting story of a self-pitying borderline-personality teenager verges on being unwatchable as a result of McDonald's decision to bombard the audience with extraneous images in lieu of telling the story.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

The Tracey Fragments is a grating stunt that plays like a film-school project, cutting a bland story into a million tiny irritating pieces.

The average user rating for this movie is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 99 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

measles chip gave it a10:
Totally awesome. I was in a bad mood but this weirdly negative movie cheered me up with its unusual world. Its def tubular.

abcd efgh gave it a10:
Great. Amazing. Fantastic. Awesome. Superb. Complete bliss. Perfect. The best. Euphoric. My favorite.

huge cookie gave it a10:
Really great. It really impressed me with the rawness of the whole film. Really felt intense and exhausted by the end but overrall very much worth it.

johnny s gave it a10:
Risky but well worth it.

people fight the government gave it a10:
So good I peed my pants. Personally I thought the split screens were genius. You really felt what ellen pages character was feeling which was brilliantly acted.

corn mayo gave it a10:
Didn't expect want I saw. I was incredibly irritated with the split images but then it sunk in and it was invisible because I got caught in the movie. Dialogue is crazy, literally. Great movie, highly recommended.

fell on you gave it a10:
Amazing, startling, unlike anything I have seen in a movie. Truly on of the best.

Tracey Fragments, The THINKFilm

Tracey Fragments, The
THINKFilm