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  • 2004
  • R
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2004
  • R
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Based on a true story, Stateside follows the adventures of an outlaw rich kid who lands in the Marine Corps and, while on leave, falls in love with a crazy young actress/pop singer. This is a story of love that overcomes precarious trials and earns, for the spirit of youth, a heartfelt victory. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Directed By: Reverge Anselmo

Written By: Reverge Anselmo

  • 2004
  • R
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2004
  • R
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Stateside

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Based on a true story, Stateside follows the adventures of an outlaw rich kid who lands in the Marine Corps and, while on leave, falls in love with a crazy young actress/pop singer. This is a story of love that overcomes precarious trials and earns, for the spirit of youth, a heartfelt victory. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Directed By: Reverge Anselmo

Written By: Reverge Anselmo

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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5% Positive
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53% Mixed
10 Reviews
42% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
35
5% Positive
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53% Mixed
10 Reviews
42% Negative
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So unexpected and unpredictable and so full of tiny grace notes that its ultimate collapse seems almost irrelevant.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
50
Anselmo, basing his script on a true story, juggles more plots than a full season of "The O.C.," setting his cast adrift in a sea of soap-opera bubbles.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
40
This has its moments--most of them thanks to Kilmer and Joe Mantegna as the boy's abusive father--but the troubled romance is unconvincing and the big-name actors hang on the story like ornaments on a spindly tree.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
40
The finely observed moments in Stateside accumulate little emotional power. The promise of something startling and compelling goes unfulfilled, and the arc of the central love story isn't interesting enough to sustain the drama.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
30
It's hard to know which is more annoying: The fact that writer-director Reverge Anselmo makes Dori's schizophrenic look like little more than a cute, sexually available lush or that he makes Mark's Marine act like a jarhead with nothing inside except fireflies.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
25
Writer-director Reverge Anselmo has created a movie of ineptness so perfect and unified as to boggle the mind.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
20
An unsalvageable mess.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Seven Hills Pictures, Cinealpha KG, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Overseas FilmGroup, Talent One
Release Date May 21, 2004
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Boy In A Flack Jacket Meets Girl In A Straight Jacket.
Website http://www.flp.com/catalogFLHE.aspx?projectid=343ab7d5-e243-4f3b-869f-2fc6ffdf2cba&index=249
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Awards

Sonoma Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Austin Revolution Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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