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Wildflowers

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Wildflowers reviews
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10.0 User Score:

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Based on 7 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Melissa Painter

Directed by: Melissa Painter

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 1, 2000
DVD: July 23, 2002

Running Time: 98 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for some language and sexuality

Starring Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana, Eric Roberts, Richard Hillman, Eric Yetter, and Robert Hass

A 17 year-old girl's life is changed forever when she becomes involved with a mysterious girl.

What The Critics Said

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50

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Timely in that it joins an already mammoth list of bad movies about post-hippie static, including the recent "Steal This Movie."

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Could have used more dramatic energy, maybe at the expense of some of that gorgeous scenery.

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40

The New York Times Dana Stevens

A dreamy, impressionistic inquiry into the legacy of the 1960's, but it's less concerned with history than with mood.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Androgynous Clea DuVall's performance shines through a foggily told, vaguely acted coming-of-age tale.

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30

TV Guide Robert Pardi

Meandering melodrama.

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30

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

The biggest problem is that the character of Sabine is such a lame male fantasy of the enigmatic woman-child.

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20

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Wildflowers is the only brand of requiem the '60s get anymore -- worshipful and ass-backward.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David L. gave it a 10:
I loved to watch Clea in this move! She and the setting made this move great for me! It was amazing to watch how great she was next to Daryl Hannah (who was really bad).

Paul M. gave it a 10:
I thought this movie was great. Sure it was a little dreamy and spacy but it sure took me back to the '80s and a little to the '60's. The characters were more like real people, vague in their motivations, incomplete, connected but not in touch than the shallow robots you see in most movies. The father character was the best. And the dealer played by Roberts reminded me of all the dealers I used to know back then and who have been erased from cultural history by the "just say no" mythology. Hannah was question mark, she wasn't smart enough to be the character she played. Beautiful shots of Marin county, it is worth it for that alone.

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