Tart (2001)
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002 Wide
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Cat Storm (Dominique Swain) is a bored high school girl in New York City who follows her petulant, rich friends from one coming-of-age adventure to another. They experiment with cruelty, rudeness, brazenness, and idiocy before moving onto sex and drugs. Cat's best friend, Delilah (Bijou Phillips), is kicked out of school for using cocaine (her father's), forcing Cat to become best friends with Grace (Mischa Barton), who guides her into the arms of William (Brad Renfro), the boy Cat's had a crush
Jan 1, 2002 Wide
Apr 23, 2002
LionsGate Entertainment
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Cast
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Dominique Swain
Cat Storm -
Brad Renfro
William -
Bijou Phillips
Delilah -
Mischa Barton
Grace -
Alberta Watson
Lily Storm -
Lacey Chabert
Eloise -
Melanie Griffith
Diane Milford -
Scott Thompson
Kenny -
Michael Murphy
Mike Storm -
Shawn Lawrence
Fred the Doorman -
Myles Jeffrey
Pete Storm -
Chelse Swain
Heather -
Jacob Pitts
Toby -
Nora Zehetner
Peg
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If it could make up it's mind what it wants to be, we might have a decent enough film here
A grating exercise... a director in love with her own material.
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Tart is an uninspired mess. First, in terms of character construction, there is a lot of mention of these characters' age, but they act like grown-ups, complete with the suit jackets and sipping on whiskey -- they're not just grown-ups; they're cliched grown-ups. And are they rich? They act like it, mentioning their parents as magnates of big businesses, but Cat's argument about the money for the dance and their surroundings are decidedly lower class at times, a mixture that produces confusion, not complexity.
Second, the dialogue is stilted and delivered like amateur actors are auditioning for community theater.
Finally, the plot is thoroughly predictable until it turns into a Lifetime movie at the very end; the final resolution has almost nothing to do with the rest of the film's conflict.
Overall, this film is without a redeeming element; even Bijou Phillips's beauty can't serve as a refuge from the shit that surrounds her.