She's Out of Control
1989VOTE NOW
| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 14, 1989 |
Starring:
Ami Dolenz, Catherine Hicks, Dana Ashbrook, Derek McGrath, Dick O'Neill, Lance Wilson-White, Laura Mooney, Matthew Perry, Tony Danza, Wallace Shawn
Summary:
When an average-looking teenage girl (Ami Dolenz) gets a makeover, it's enough to make her father become overprotective of her.
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SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL would have done far better in the TV ratings than it did at the box office. It has all the production pluses of national ad campaigns: smart art direction, lighting, and costume design; a catchy mix of old and new rock'n'roll on the soundtrack. Unfortunately, SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL also resembles commercials in that it hopes to appeal to everyone and basically endears itself to no one.
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The coarse material, from a screenplay by Seth Winston and Michael J. Nathanson, is roughed up even more by Dragoti's abrasive exaggeration, both of performance (there's a terrifying sequence in which Hicks finally gets her long dreamed-of engagement ring and goes into a frenzy of triumph and delight) and of visual style (visits to the office of sinister shrink Wallace Shawn are filmed in weird expressionist off-angles). [14 Apr 1989, p.D]
She's Out of Control is too insipid to take. [15 Apr 1989, p.E5]
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