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Dare (2009)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:8

Rotten:4

Average Rating:5.6/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexual content, language and alcohol use - all involving teens.

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 13, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: In high school, what kind of person did you dare to be: risk-taking and lustful, melancholy and confused or simply safe and over-achieving? Dare follows three teenagers through their last... In high school, what kind of person did you dare to be: risk-taking and lustful, melancholy and confused or simply safe and over-achieving? Dare follows three teenagers through their last semester of school: Alexa (Rossum, Phantom of the Opera), the smart, good girl who longs to break out of her shell; Ben (Springer, Teeth), the lonely outsider dealing with his sexuality; and Johnny (Gilford, Friday Night Lights), the rich, seemingly perfect bad-boy who has everything. In a last-ditch effort to shake things up before graduating and start living as adults, this unlikely trio take the biggest risks of their lives. In the process, they learn no one is exactly who they appear to be. --© Image [More]

Starring: Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer

Starring: Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, Sandra Bernhard, Rooney Mara

Director: Adam Salky

Director: Adam Salky
Screenwriter: David Brind
Producer: Mary Jane Skalski
Studio: Image Entertainment, Inc.

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Brind's screenplay is pregnant with fascinating questions of identity and social anxiety. And Salky knows how to create a mood.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
12/03/09
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The film lacks the comedic charm of American Pie, but with its dark, hyper-sexualization of teens, it offers an engrossing if not soap opera-esque tale of self-discovery.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
11/13/09
Gerrick Kennedy
Gerrick Kennedy
Los Angeles Times
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Dare feels a bit unfinished, at once overreaching and underrealized. But there is a lot of intelligence, and considerable daring, in the basic conceit.

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11/13/09
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Quite good in brief stretches but not distinguishable enough overall, freshman director Adam Salky’s picture evinces the coming of age confusion he’s chronicling.

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11/13/09
John P. McCarthy
John P. McCarthy
Boxoffice Magazine

Dare is a high school coming-of-age film that dares to push the envelope. It doesn't always succeed, but that's not for lack of trying.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/13/09
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Director Adam Salky nails down the notion that when your fantasies come true, sometimes they are awkward and unsatisfying. There's a reason they didn't seem realistic.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | comment Comment
11/12/09
Adam Lippe
Adam Lippe
Examiner.com

The actors, all great camera subjects, help give director Adam Salky's overly pat movie a trace of confessional conviction.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 3 Comments
11/11/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Adam Salky’s high-school soap offers a virtual Spumoni of caricatured adolescent hand-wringing. When subtlety equals a drama-class performance of A Streetcar Named Desire’s rape scene, expect a bumpy ride.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
11/11/09
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Zach Gilford's game performance is still no match for the film's catalog of easy ironies, awkward framings, and advice on how to play Blanche DuBois cribbed from season 4, episode 2 of The Simpsons.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
11/10/09
Andrew Schenker
Andrew Schenker
Village Voice
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(The film) failed to ring true for me...Too many of the sexual situations struck me as contrived.

Full Review Source: Movie Dearest | comment Comment
07/22/09
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Movie Dearest

While not all the filmmakers' gambits work, this low-budget comedy is thematically daring and increasingly engrossing as it rolls along.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
05/09/09
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
Screen International

Adam Salky's entry into the coming of age genre ... tells the age-old story with a few interesting wrinkles.

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01/28/09
S. James Wegg
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