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Rain

Rain (2001)

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89

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2

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audience

74

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 2,275

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Movie Info

While on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents' marriage is on the rocks.

R,

Drama, Romance

Christine Jeffs

May 8, 2007

$0.3M

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All Critics (66) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (9) | DVD (5)

Treats a potentially explosive set-up with adult reflection and thoughtfulness.

July 25, 2002
Orlando Sentinel
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Far from the first female coming-of-age movie, but it's one of the most vivid.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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Rain is so slight that it almost isn't there, but these performers deftly approximate the sensation of having a craving for someone.

July 9, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee
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It is, like weather, what it is, neither good nor bad but something that feels as if it has the weight of the inevitable.

June 14, 2002
Washington Post
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Jeffs creates a lush atmosphere of desire and approaching chaos, and delivers a bona fide shocker in the last reel.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Ms. Fulford-Wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky, calculating Lolita turn.

May 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
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First-time writer-director Christine Jeffs captures the destruction of a family with a blunt accuracy that never precludes a gift for the occasionally lyrical moment.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Fulford-Wierzbicki in particular turns in a performance well beyond her years as Janey.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

The film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled. But ... in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances, the film has - ironically - distanced us from the characters.

September 26, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Before it rains, clouds cover the sky and hint at the coming storm. Jeffs fully captures that feeling of anticipation.

August 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star

The symbolism may be a little thick at times ... but overall it's a remarkably strong debut that marks Jeffs as a director to watch.

July 18, 2002 Full Review
Des Moines Register

Audience Reviews for Rain

This is a very tough movie. Tough characters, tough subject matter, tough to watch. I mean this in a good way. These people are very real with real problems and real attitudes. There is a raw nakedness about the film that makes it somehow tangible and sometimes uncomfortable. The scenes are not painted nor rendered rather they are captured as they are?and they are not very pretty (save for some of the landscape). The cast are not a group of models (though the youngest boy is about as cute and wonderful an actor as they come). This movie will hit you as ?real.? The viewer is presented with a family; Husband, Wife, Daughter, Son. The Daughter appears to be the focal character, but as pivotal as she is each character is given ample time and thought. The problems that they deal with are very real. I don?t think this will be a spoiler to anyone, but in case you think it might be skip to the next paragraph. Be prepared to deal with a family on the brink of destruction, infidelity, addiction, purposelessness, coming unto teenage sexuality, and all of this combined to amount to tragedy. This film is a tragic drama that may leave you squirming a bit. I recommend this film to those who are comfortable looking at some of the more difficult things in life or who have experienced some of the same and wish to see an accurate portrayal?a film that empathizes with the pain that real life can bring.
July 17, 2007
Camus123

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an unbelievably sad film with a heartbreakingly bittersweet atmosphere. Rain sits much in the same vein as Thirteen, though less the sense of cautionary tale and much more of a coming-of-age story. it's a downer, but one that leaves a palpable sense of beauty and substance
May 28, 2007
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