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- 1989
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1989
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary When an average-looking teenage girl (Ami Dolenz) gets a makeover, it's enough to make her father become overprotective of her.
Directed By: Stan Dragoti
Written By: Seth Winston, Michael J. Nathanson
- 1989
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1989
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
She's Out of Control
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Summary When an average-looking teenage girl (Ami Dolenz) gets a makeover, it's enough to make her father become overprotective of her.
Directed By: Stan Dragoti
Written By: Seth Winston, Michael J. Nathanson
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
0 Reviews
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27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
73% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
20
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
73% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
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.
They’ve made a sometimes funny, mostly media-referential movie without much real life; a high-tech, high-pro job that has a glamor-robot feel.
An inspid comedy about Daddy and Daddy's little girl. It's an irksome, one-dimensional sitcom with smut.
Somewhere lurking behind the scenes of She's Out of Control is the germ of a good idea. Despite some funny scenes, the sitcomish treatment of a father's anxiety over his teenage daughter's budding sexuality is mostly shallow and uneven.
She's Out of Control is too insipid to take. [15 Apr 1989, p.E5]
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 simultaneously so bizarre and so banal that it's a first: the first movie fabricated entirely from sitcom cliches and plastic lifestyles, without reference to any known plane of reality.
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Production Company
Weintraub Entertainment Group,
Upstart Productions
Release Date Apr 14, 1989
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline She was Daddy's little girl. Now she's at that age when girls go wild, guys go crazy and Dads go nuts.
Awards
Paris Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
