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All Over Me (1997)
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Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 21 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
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 teens Ellen and Claude degrades after Ellen begins dating a rough-hewn, mean-spirited... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz
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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.
06/29/06
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06/24/06
transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality
07/28/05
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Given great lyrical force by Folland, it comes closer to unlocking the secret lives of girls than any other recent American movie.
10/03/02
Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.
01/09/02
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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.
01/01/00
Sichel strips her story to the essential, offering a film that's tough, compassionate and true.
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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.
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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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terrible title, great little film
by: rakastaa 1/29/04
by: rakastaa 1/29/04
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