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05/19/06
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Mouth to Mouth (2006)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:10
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.2/10
Theatrical Release:May 19, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Sherry, a young runaway meets the radical street collective SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge - while she is living on the streets of Europe. She travels through the continent in... [More]
Starring: Ellen Page, Eric Thal, August Diehl
Reviews for Mouth to Mouth
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating)
The film's subject matter is far from enjoyable, and, in the absence of anything fresh in its perspective, it's hard to imagine who would want to endure it.
06/04/06
An uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.
04/25/06
Top CriticLike the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
05/19/06
Suffers from disjointed storytelling and myriad other problems, including a bizarre reliance on modern dance sequences to interrupt the action.
06/02/06
so threadbare in offering character motivations and background that it hobbles the performances
05/20/06
Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.
06/02/06
An anti-cult cautionary tale directed at impressionable kids in jeopardy of joining shirtless hunks on European excursions marked by chanting, eating out of dumpsters, and psychological warfare.
05/04/06
Alison Murray's chaotic, semiautobiographical account of a teenage girl's misadventures in a traveling cult, occupies its own stylistic niche: the movie as acid flashback.
05/27/06
Top CriticDespite its contemporary stylistic flourishes (including several disparate dance sequences choreographed by director Alison Murray, previously a music video helmer), Mouth to Mouth is pretty ordinary.
06/02/06
About willfully homeless street youth and their programmed need for community and belonging, but the film's unintentional ramifications dig deeper.
05/16/06
Though Mouth to Mouth is a grim movie, it’s far from a hopeless one.
06/01/06
Wightman's gradual change from liberated mom to moonie is one of the scariest performances of the year.
05/19/06
A gritty, original, and visceral film about a cult's romantic hold on a vulnerable girl...
07/10/07
Murray, making her feature debut as a writer and director, left home when she was 15, and her firsthand experience with hard truths gives the movie a raw authority.
06/02/06
Worth seeing even if only for Ellen Page's stunning performance.
05/18/06
Page has the looks and the internal landscape to provide an awkward plot with the emotional hook to hang on to. This supernova in the making can carry a movie.
05/06/06
The cult becomes the most important character in this otherwise well-made Canadian film about a charismatic group leader and his followers. Catch star Ellen Page so you can say you knew her when.
04/26/06
A clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.
05/19/06
For all the flaws, its grit and honesty have genuine strength.
05/27/06
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