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Mouth to Mouth (2006)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:10

Rotten:10

Average Rating:5.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:09-05-2008

Synopsis: Sherry, a young runaway meets the radical street collective SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge - while she is living on the streets of Europe. She travels through the continent in... Sherry, a young runaway meets the radical street collective SPARK - Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge - while she is living on the streets of Europe. She travels through the continent in the SPARK van, recruiting members from street gangs and disenfranchised youth at raves and town squares and experiencing the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations. Searching for a place to belong where she can still be herself, Sherry thinks she has found this in SPARK, but when her mother comes to find her, Sherry discovers that she must pay a heavy personal price for rebellion. Alison Murray combines drama, suspense and choreographed movement in an intense, stylish and provocative look at youth culture, the struggles of parenthood, and the dark side of nonconformity. -- © Artistic License Films. [More]

Starring: Ellen Page, Eric Thal, August Diehl

Starring: Ellen Page, Eric Thal, August Diehl


Studio: Artistic License

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A gritty, original, and visceral film about a cult's romantic hold on a vulnerable girl...

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
07/10/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Film Threat

The film's subject matter is far from enjoyable, and, in the absence of anything fresh in its perspective, it's hard to imagine who would want to endure it.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
06/04/06
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Murray becomes less and less sure of where things are heading or what it is she is trying to get at, such that the last few reels feel perfunctory and unengaged.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
06/02/06
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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Murray, making her feature debut as a writer and director, left home when she was 15, and her firsthand experience with hard truths gives the movie a raw authority.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
06/02/06
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

Suffers from disjointed storytelling and myriad other problems, including a bizarre reliance on modern dance sequences to interrupt the action.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
06/02/06
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Despite its contemporary stylistic flourishes (including several disparate dance sequences choreographed by director Alison Murray, previously a music video helmer), Mouth to Mouth is pretty ordinary.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/02/06
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Though Mouth to Mouth is a grim movie, it’s far from a hopeless one.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
06/01/06
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

For all the flaws, its grit and honesty have genuine strength.

Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium | comment Comment
05/27/06
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Alison Murray's chaotic, semiautobiographical account of a teenage girl's misadventures in a traveling cult, occupies its own stylistic niche: the movie as acid flashback.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/27/06
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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so threadbare in offering character motivations and background that it hobbles the performances

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
05/20/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Filmcritic.com

A clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/19/06
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/19/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Wightman's gradual change from liberated mom to moonie is one of the scariest performances of the year.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
05/19/06
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

The whole is never quite convincing.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
05/19/06
New York Magazine

Worth seeing even if only for Ellen Page's stunning performance.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
05/18/06
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

About willfully homeless street youth and their programmed need for community and belonging, but the film's unintentional ramifications dig deeper.

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05/16/06
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Page has the looks and the internal landscape to provide an awkward plot with the emotional hook to hang on to. This supernova in the making can carry a movie.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
05/06/06
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

An anti-cult cautionary tale directed at impressionable kids in jeopardy of joining shirtless hunks on European excursions marked by chanting, eating out of dumpsters, and psychological warfare.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/04/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

The cult becomes the most important character in this otherwise well-made Canadian film about a charismatic group leader and his followers. Catch star Ellen Page so you can say you knew her when.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
04/26/06
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

An uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/25/06
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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