...so over the top it can hardly be taken seriously.
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01/01/00
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... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cheryl Ladd, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert
Director: Katt Shea Ruben, Andy Ruben
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Reviews for Poison Ivy
No review available.
10/11/02
Aanybody hoping to be titillated by it will almost certainly be terribly disappointed.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/22/04
For the most part the actors' work seems incomplete because their characters are cut off before they can fully blossom.
01/01/00
Top CriticSleazy teen thriller isn't as much fun as it should be
06/26/03
Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.
02/11/08
Top CriticGrab the calamine lotion, quick.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/14/05
No review available.
02/07/05
There is scarcely a moment in the movie when the story works as fiction; I was always aware of the casting, of the mood-setting devices, of the stylistic borrowings from Hitchcock.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
12/14/03
No review available.
07/26/02
Unfortunate thesps take it all very seriously, while technical aspects are emptily polished.
02/11/08
Poison Ivy strikes a pleasing balance between emotion and ambiguity.
02/11/08
Offbeat and compelling neo-noir.
02/11/08
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
No review available.
02/09/05
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
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