- Studio: THINKFilm
- Release Date: Jun 14, 2002
- Starring: Jena Malone, Kieran Culkin
- Summary: Based on Chris Fuhrman's original and audacious coming-of-age novel, this film is a 70's-set drama featuring two charming but irreverent Catholic high schoolers who confront the mysteries of adulthood. (ThinkFilm)
- Director: Peter Care
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 31
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Mixed: 12 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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100Essentially a coming-of-age story set in working-class North Carolina in the 1970s. But it's so startlingly original that it transcends the genre. This is a wonderful film, from puckish start to momentous finish.
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90The look and feel of the film is entirely beguiling. It is deliberately not a period piece, heavy with dated styles and fads, but instead evokes a sense of timelessness.
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60There are moments of wonderful insight, but while the booming, fully animated adventures of the Atomic Trinity (by "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane) that Care intercuts with the live action at first seem a good idea, they ultimately upset the film's carefully established mood.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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JasmineS.10
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HollyeC.9
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