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- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 36 m
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 36 m
Summary An evocative drama that tells the story of an 18 year-old girl, abandoned by her father and neglected by her overworked mother, who turns for solace and inspiration to her English teacher. (Miramax)
Directed By: Karen Moncrieff
Written By: Karen Moncrieff
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 36 m
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 36 m
Blue Car
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Summary An evocative drama that tells the story of an 18 year-old girl, abandoned by her father and neglected by her overworked mother, who turns for solace and inspiration to her English teacher. (Miramax)
Directed By: Karen Moncrieff
Written By: Karen Moncrieff
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
76
94% Positive
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
6% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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A memory of the automobile in which a father drove away from his family provides the title for Blue Car but no hint of the power of writer-director Karen Moncrieff's superb feature debut.
Bruckner's restrained performance reveals a girl drowning in her own lack of self-esteem. When she finally comes up for air, she shatters the surface with a force that, in the hands of a less thoughtful director, could send her spinning down the melodramatic road to ruin.
Moncrieff's insistence on her subject suggests conviction -- about her contribution and about her cast. Both beliefs are pretty much justified.
Bruckner is an amazement, piercing the heart without begging for sympathy. This small gem of a movie is the perfect setting for her breakthrough performance.
The scenes of family squalor are memorably persuasive, but any filmmaker ending her movie with the heroine throwing a crumpled poem into the ocean needs a few more writing courses.
Stunning newcomer Agnes Bruckner and indie vet David Strathairn star in this oft compelling yet eventually disappointing character study of a young girl's rise out of the doldrums of adolescent life.
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Production Company
Peer Oppenheimer Production Inc.
Release Date May 2, 2003
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Ready or not... the future comes just the same.
Website
http://www.miramax.com/bluecar/
Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
