Ineptitude abounds in this ham-fisted thirteen wannabe.
Close Call
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:0
Rotten:5
Average Rating:2.1/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Close Call is a coming of age awakening heartfelt story about a teenage girl trapped in a downward spiral of promiscuous sex, drugs, alcohol use, and criminality. Brutally honest in its depiction... Close Call is a coming of age awakening heartfelt story about a teenage girl trapped in a downward spiral of promiscuous sex, drugs, alcohol use, and criminality. Brutally honest in its depiction of the damage wrought by the breakdown of the family in contemporary America, Close Call adds another theme to the story: The ever-widening gap between first generation parents and the generation Y children. Close Call focuses on sixteen-year-old Jenny Kim, born and raised in corrupt Los Angeles. Family problems lead to a divorce causing Jenny to suffer from intense feelings of alienation and abandonment. Ignorant of her native culture and unsure of her place in American society, Jenny finds herself vulnerable to the evil influences and temptations surrounding her from friends, raves, boys and other mishaps. While her mother loses control of her, it is her father, David, who reunites with Jenny and leads the teenager to redemption. Never losing his all-consuming love for Jenny, David proves willing to make any sacrifice to save her. It is the intense psychological interplay between father and daughter in two different worlds that forms the heart and soul of Close Call. -- © Prime Media Pictures [More]
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Philip Moon
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Philip Moon
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Oct 17, 2006
Reviews for Close Call
Too inconsequential and too earnest to belong in the So Bad It's Good category; rather, it's merely bad.
A poorly executed DIY production replete with all the un-tethered irresponsibility and overly demonstrative signifiers one would expect.
Lee has heaped so many social ills on his heroine that it’s difficult to buy any of it.
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