This powerful, funny romantic drama neatly integrates the dilemmas of a girl in love, the girl she loves, a boy who also loves that girl, and that girl's sister.
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07/18/07
Show Me Love (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:35
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A naturalistic depiction of teenage life, Show Me Love has a charming, authentic feel.
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Elin and Agnes are a pair of teenage girls trapped in the small town of Amal, an isolated place where nothing ever happens. Elin is teased for being an outsider, but she doesn't realize that Agnes... [More]
Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust
Director: Lukas Moodysson
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Reviews for Show Me Love
Top CriticA simple, charming, and slightly edgy romance between two teenage girls.
05/26/06
It tells this story with complexity and emotional truth, something that strikes me as a rarity in the genre.
01/01/00
A poignant exploration of the cruelty and anguish of teenage existence.
01/01/00
One of the most honest and heartfelt teen dramas ever to grace the screen.
01/01/00
Top Critic...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story.
09/18/01
Incredibly fun, incredibly entertaining, and worth watching in all respects.
01/01/00
The movie is funny, gentle, and true.
01/01/00
Top CriticLukas Moodyson's debut feature has a grainy, immediate feel that nicely enhances the story's emotional honesty -- a quality that our own popular teen movies have only just begun to embrace.
07/18/07
The film has some charm and a winning simplicity but not an iota of depth.
01/01/00
Top CriticConvincingly delivers a universally appealing lesson about the joy that results from the mature determination to be free.
01/01/00
High school, small town, teenagers in hormone hell -- or is that heaven?
03/19/02
Top CriticUnfortunately, as the plot develops, it shies away from exploring that discontent, in favor of demonstrating precisely the kind of naiveté and sweetness that one would expect to find in any teen romance.
04/11/04
While the storyline has few surprises, the central performances create a touching relationship, despite the suspicion that the male writer/director's interest in the subject is slightly dubious, or at least tokenistic.
02/09/06
What makes writer-director Lukas Moodysson's work head and shoulders above similarly-themed movies is the sheer unaffectedness of it.
01/01/00
The two lead performances by Dahlstroem and Liljeberg are entirely naturalistic.
01/23/02
Written and directed by Moodysson with charm, a sense of fun and no condescension.
01/01/00
It's just an incredibly insightful character drama about true, awkward, beautiful first love, and it's all the better for it. Oh, and that last shot is as cute as it gets.
09/10/02
I must have missed what the Swedes see in this film. I found it mildly interesting at best.
10/21/02
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