An impressive first effort from Ms. Moncrieff, but the eternal Aristotelian in me finds it depressing to watch characters always walking around in moral quicksand.
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06/11/03
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Blue Car (2003)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:69
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: A cautionary tale that rings true.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $397,645
Synopsis: Agnes Bruckner delivers an impressive, assured performance with BLUE CAR, an affecting coming-of-age drama from Karen Moncrieff. Bruckner is Meg, a beautiful teenager who is desperate to find... [More]
Starring: David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, Frances Fisher
Director: Karen Moncrieff
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Reviews for Blue Car
Top CriticThe performances here top-notch across the board.
07/29/02
I found this movie fascinating -- but not an easy one to sit through. It's seems excruciatingly real.
09/27/03
Worth watching for the coming-out party of Agnes Bruckner, a relative newcomer who shows her mettle with an extraordinary performance in this very ordinary tear-jerker.
06/12/03
Top CriticA cozy, well-made vehicle without the capacity to carry everything that writer-director Karen Moncrieff piles into it.
05/02/03
Top CriticVivid performances . . . the film's warmly luminous look and the richly rendered view of a troubled but talented teen's struggles with the adult world sustain the film.
12/01/03
From the rain-streaked windshield to the unaffected line readings from a stellar cast, there is not a shot in Blue Car that doesn't ring true.
05/16/03
It's rare that a movie makes a viewer experience the psychodynamics of an encounter so profoundly -- usually theater is a better medium for that -- but Moncrieff has exceptional skills.
05/23/03
Top CriticThe strength of the movie -- which makes sure to show the pressures its characters face, so that all of them are weak but none of them is a villain -- is its recognition of the strength within Meg.
05/23/03
Has the feel of a novel in which the characters linger in one's memory well after the book has been read.
05/01/03
A well-intentioned coming-of-age film anchored by two indelible performances but weakened by an overabundance of drama.
05/30/03
Moncrieff (who studied acting) has such a fine cast that she makes the nuances come together as the portrait of a brief, piercing time in peoples' lives.
06/13/03
[Blue Car contains] a fantastic (and most likely star-making) performance by Agnes Bruckner and a script that never strikes a false or phony note.
09/25/02
Ms. Moncrieff's low-key directing is matched by fine acting from Agnes Bruckner as Meg and David Strathairn as her mentor.
05/01/03
Cuts both ways: the poetry and the acting were hot, the story and the cinematography were not so hot.
10/23/03
Not unlike Robert J. Siegel's Swimming, this little gem plays out an awful lot like adolescence.
08/29/02
...perhaps slight of budget but full of heart, soul, and a ton of acting talent, all well stirred by a new director who has expertly transferred her story of family failures and teen dreams to the big screen.
05/07/03
A quietly devastating song for our lonely age.
05/01/03
A moody, almost somnolent film in which good performances outweigh the oppressive subject matter.
09/18/02
The story is so well-acted and honestly written that after a while it stops bothering us that we know where it's going.
05/23/03
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