A cozy, well-made vehicle without the capacity to carry everything that writer-director Karen Moncrieff piles into it.
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05/02/03
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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 CriticIn its studied, naturalistic way, the movie can nonetheless resemble a week of Oprah sobfests.
05/02/03
A fine first film, and one you won't easily forget.
05/02/03
Top CriticAn unflinchingly honest coming-of-age portrait.
05/02/03
Blue Car may not be in the category of a classic, but it's certainly not a total wreck (more like a fixer-upper that's serviceable).
05/02/03
An overtly earnest, mopey first feature.
05/01/03
A most impressive writing and directing debut for Karen Moncrieff.
05/01/03
Top CriticMoncrieff offers a rare, unromantic take on female adolescence as sharp as a razor: It cuts right to the bone.
05/01/03
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
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
Even with its drawbacks, Blue Car remains an intimate, thoughtful drama, with a performance no one is likely to forget.
05/01/03
Top CriticIntimate, honest, if occasionally contrived.
05/01/03
Top CriticA quietly devastating song for our lonely age.
05/01/03
Moncrieff unfolds the tale with the bare-bones grace of an expert novelist, making subtle connections but never telling the audience how to feel.
05/01/03
Ms. Moncrieff's mature direction distills nuanced performances from her actors to tell a well-balanced, compelling and enlightening story with refreshing candor.
05/01/03
Top CriticBlue Car is a beautifully crafted and well-acted drama about the tug and pull of yearning in the lives of a tormented young eighteen-year-old poet and her high school English teacher.
05/01/03
Strathairn's portrayal of a flawed man is so moving and Bruckner's Meg so painfully true -- a breakthrough performance -- that thoughts of Lolita are left far behind.
04/30/03
Top CriticA teacher-student tangle that uses its So-Called Lifeness as a beard for interactions that veer from everyday surreal to hauntingly injurious.
04/29/03
No mere run-of-the-mill coming of age tale but a complex, poignant drama of a teacher-student relationship exquisitely acted.
01/31/03
This film is ultimately disappointing if not only for the lack of originality in the final scenes.
12/08/02
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