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Poison Ivy

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Poison Ivy (1992)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:4

Average Rating:4.3/10

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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Sep 29, 2009

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Unfortunate thesps take it all very seriously, while technical aspects are emptily polished.

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Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.

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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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For the most part the actors' work seems incomplete because their characters are cut off before they can fully blossom.

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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.

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