Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 12
A modest, nicely acted road movie.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
A modest, nicely acted road movie.
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Alice (Emily Grace, in her first feature film role) has run away from her small town, New Hampshire home and hit the road, completely unprepared for the future. She has a wad of ill-gotten cash and a semblance of a plan. She's going to Florida, where she'll crash with a friend who goes to college there. Dolphins have always fascinated her, and eventually she hopes she'll somehow find a way to enroll herself in school and study marine biology. After an unpleasant encounter with a couple of
Dec 5, 2003 Wide
Sep 21, 2004
Castle Hill Productions
All Critics (38) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (12) | DVD (1)
An almost constantly surprising coming-of-age film with a dark twist that manages to take the high road with what is well-exploited material.
A solid character piece that deftly probes the complicity of both sides in a morally dubious relationship.
Ivey is fascinating, cooing nonstop in a cozy Southern accent, friendly and accepting, but also observant and oddly unknowable. It's a performance that even gets better on second viewing.
Sweet, suspenseful, funny, poignant -- and adult.
The movie looks like TV from beginning to end, and accentuates the other major compromise of its meager budget.
A rough-hewn, modest little road movie of sorts, elevated by a trio of compelling performances and a desire to take the narrative road less traveled.
This amateur film looks more like a TV show than a movie.
What we found is a bleak, but interesting look into a world where the line is blurred between good people and bad. Judith Ivey's performance is the real jewel of the film.
It plays like a walk on the wild side dreamed up in a Starbucks.
Assisted by the harsh immediacy of digital video, writer-director A. Dean Bell puts forth his material with utter objectivity.
Candidly unsentimental yet utterly human.
It neither glamorizes nor demonizes truck-stop whoredom; it merely depicts it, with little of the internal strife that ought to accompany it.
The film's somewhat light-hearted tone is wholly inappropriate in what is, in essence, a story of sexual predators.
Ivey delivers a sassy, no-nonsense performance and Grace shows herself a sensitive young actress, but neither overcomes Bell's pretensions or digital-video limitations.
A fine merging of means, material and ego -- a nicely acted, simple little road movie vacuumed free of any indie scene smugness or self-satisfaction.
There's something fresh and honest here.
This digitally-shot feature never seems aware of its subjects.
A modest but pungent slice of interstate life.
Bell forces us to see characters from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in a distinctly human light, neither ennobling nor pitying.
What a nice surprise! I had my doubts that a low budget film about a lot lizard would be good, but I found this is an interesting movie. Good acting, and a good setting, made all the more real by the low budget filming. It is not slick, or insulting. Just a very nice character study. Very decent little Indie flick.
January 23, 2011Super Reviewer
A gritty tale of a young woman who makes a series of bad choices and discovers that what she was running from wasn't as bad as she thought. The story is a bit predictable, the accents are phony, and the cinematography is low-budget all the way, but there is some gold here anyway. The characters are well drawn and the
August 9, 2010Super Reviewer
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