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All Over Me (1997)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:21
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.2/10
Synopsis: ALL OVER ME is an intense, naturalistic portrait of a changing friendship between two teenage girls, set in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen. The symbiotic, loving relationship between riot-grrrl... ALL OVER ME is an intense, naturalistic portrait of a changing friendship between two teenage girls, set in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen. The symbiotic, loving relationship between riot-grrrl teens Ellen and Claude degrades after Ellen begins dating a rough-hewn, mean-spirited older boy, and Claude tries on a lesbian identity with the help of a new gay male friend. The movie is suffused with alternative music-scene bit parts and cameos, including Leisha Hailey (of the Murmurs) and Mary Timony (of Helium). [More]
Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser
Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz, Pat Briggs, Leisha Hailey, Mary Timony
Director: Alex Sichel
Director: Alex Sichel
Screenwriter: Sylvia Sichel
Reviews for All Over Me
Though the main charcater is lesbian, Sichel's gritty youth melodrama is so rich in ideas amd so roght in its texture that it goes beyond a coming-out ot even a lesbian-themed story.
transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality
Given great lyrical force by Folland, it comes closer to unlocking the secret lives of girls than any other recent American movie.
Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.
I do think the Sichels got right much of the awkwardness of teenage transitions into adulthood and of the comfort girls find in the company of other equally confused and hormonally distressed girls.
Sichel strips her story to the essential, offering a film that's tough, compassionate and true.
Part of the reason All Over Me possesses such a stark sense of realism is because of the keenly-observed, unaffected performances of the lead actors.
Alex and Sylvia Sichel have taken a familiar coming-of-age story, something that might work as an Afterschool Special, and given it the contour, grit and white-hot energy of something much more.
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