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All Over Me (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 21  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.2/10

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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... 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]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz

Director: Alex Sichel
Screenwriter: Sylvia Sichel

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 14, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 16:9

Audio:

  • Stereo - English

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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.

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06/29/06
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Geoff Andrew
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12/06/05
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transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality

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07/28/05
Don Willmott
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07/30/03
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Mark Palermo
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This picture should be required viewing for all teens.

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12/08/02
Ron Wells
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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.

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Manohla Dargis
L.A. Weekly
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Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.

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01/09/02
Stephen Farber
Movieline
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Sichel is just great with her cast.

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02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A walk on the mild side.

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01/01/00
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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.

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Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner
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Sichel strips her story to the essential, offering a film that's tough, compassionate and true.

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Greg Muskewitz
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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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James Berardinelli
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A confident first feature.

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Janet Maslin
New York Times
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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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01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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