Poison Ivy (1992)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 12 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 3 hrs
Synopsis: Lonely teen Sylvie Cooper befriends sexy schoolmate Ivy and watches as Ivy moves into her home and slowly takes over the Cooper family. A little girl gone bad, she seduces Sylvie's father and betrays the bedridden mother. Ripping the family apart, Ivy situates herself as the new mother. Only... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cheryl Ladd, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert
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Unfortunate thesps take it all very seriously, while technical aspects are emptily polished.
02/11/08
Top Critic
Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.
02/11/08
Top Critic
Shea's arty-trashy exploitation film is an amalgam of Fatal Attraction, Stepfather, and Pasolini's Teorema, in all of which the order of a middle-class is disrupted by a deparved interloper, well played here by the sexy Drew Barrymore as a modern Lolita
10/09/06
Its willingness to take risks, and its insights into the frailties and confusions of teenage friendships, lift the film right out of the rut.
06/24/06
If Drew Barrymore hadn't been so good at being bad, then this truly would have been bad. But luckily, she was good--and so it's decent. You got all that?
09/24/02
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