Alex and Sylvia Sichel have taken a familiar coming-of-age story, something that might work as an Afterschool Special, and given it the contour, grit and white-hot energy of something much more.
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01/01/00
All Over Me (1997)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:21
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: ALL OVER ME is an intense, naturalistic portrait of a changing friendship between two teenage girls, set in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen. The symbiotic, loving relationship between riot-grrrl... [More]
Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser
Director: Alex Sichel
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Reviews for All Over Me
It's a movie for riot grrrls of all ages.
01/01/00
Part of the reason All Over Me possesses such a stark sense of realism is because of the keenly-observed, unaffected performances of the lead actors.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt succeeds beautifully at capturing the inner life of girls.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere may not be a more personal and affecting film this year.
01/01/00
This is not new territory, but it is a completely new exploration of it.
01/01/00
Given great lyrical force by Folland, it comes closer to unlocking the secret lives of girls than any other recent American movie.
10/03/02
Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.
01/09/02
Sichel strips her story to the essential, offering a film that's tough, compassionate and true.
01/01/00
Top CriticThough the main charcater is lesbian, Sichel's gritty youth melodrama is so rich in ideas amd so roght in its texture that it goes beyond a coming-out ot even a lesbian-themed story.
06/29/06
Top CriticA confident first feature.
01/01/00
Top CriticReveals the adolescence most everyone went through (or witnessed) but no one talks about.
01/01/00
I do think the Sichels got right much of the awkwardness of teenage transitions into adulthood and of the comfort girls find in the company of other equally confused and hormonally distressed girls.
01/01/00
Sichel is just great with her cast.
02/14/01
Top CriticThis picture should be required viewing for all teens.
12/08/02
transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality
07/28/05
A walk on the mild side.
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