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  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary Toe to Toe tells the story of the friendship and rivalry between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior girls at a competitive Washington, D.C. prep school. Tosha is an African American scholarship student from Anacostia, one of Washington`s poorest areas, while Jesse is a troubled and promiscuous white girl from the ritzy suburbs of...

Directed By: Emily Abt

Written By: Emily Abt

  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2010
  • TV-14
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

Toe to Toe

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Toe to Toe tells the story of the friendship and rivalry between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior girls at a competitive Washington, D.C. prep school. Tosha is an African American scholarship student from Anacostia, one of Washington`s poorest areas, while Jesse is a troubled and promiscuous white girl from the ritzy suburbs of...

Directed By: Emily Abt

Written By: Emily Abt

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Ms. Abt provides an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
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For good stretches, Toe to Toe has an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch.
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Resourceful, if occasionally forced, teen melodrama.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
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Moving and more ambitious than a CW serial drama or the long-ago ABC After School Specials because its honesty outweighs its occasionally trite dialogue and sometimes false scenes.
By Steve Ramos FULL REVIEW
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The performances are top-notch and occasionally moving, but Abt nearly smothers it all with some embarrassing coming-of-age teen-angst false notes, plus clichéd Ivy League ambitions, a cartoonishly neglectful mother, STDs, unfair expulsion, martyrdom for both the rich and poor, and a non-reciprocal lesbian crush.
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It’s a shame that Toe to Toe adheres so stridently to Indiewood clichés.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Offhollywood Digital, Pureland Pictures, Susie Q Productions, Toe to Toe Film Productions
Release Date Feb 26, 2010
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline Winning isn't always black and white.
Website http://toetotoethemovie.com/main.html
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Black Reel Awards
• 1 Nomination

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