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32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 4 out of 7
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Conjures up enough involving moments to create some drama.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    While handsomely mounted and generally well acted, the film is undermined by long stretches of awkward, obvious dialogue and by the vagueness of Lisa's revolt against the status quo.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    40
    In the end, Lisa's revolt seems as predictably programmatic, and as widely abstracted from observable human behavior, as the movie that contains her.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    The characters speak in Dialogue rather than English, the actors are so busy emoting they forget to act and the story feels like a first-draft college project.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    A sluggish and prototypically earnest little indie on the not exactly fresh theme of a woman undergoing a midlife crisis.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leonard Klady
    30
    Oblique and impenetrable under its glossy surface.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Edward Crouse
    20
    Takes its heroine, Lisa (Van Dyck), to the neurotic brink.
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