Ambiguous and intriguing.
Poison Ivy (1992)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:11
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 3 hrs
Genre: Dramas
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... 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 Sylvie can save her family. [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cheryl Ladd, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cheryl Ladd, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert
Director: Katt Shea Ruben, Andy Ruben
Director: Katt Shea Ruben, Andy Ruben
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Reviews for Poison Ivy
Unfortunate thesps take it all very seriously, while technical aspects are emptily polished.
Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.
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
Its willingness to take risks, and its insights into the frailties and confusions of teenage friendships, lift the film right out of the rut.
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?
Why settle for the usual walk around the exploitation block when Shea offers a wild ride with the top down into uncharted territory?
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