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Mouth to Mouth

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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
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 the SPARK van, recruiting members from street gangs and disenfranchised youth at raves and town... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Ellen Page, Eric Thal, August Diehl

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

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07/10/07 04:44 PM
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Film Threat
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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.

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06/04/06 07:58 PM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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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.

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06/02/06 06:41 PM
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.

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06/02/06 06:40 PM
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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Suffers from disjointed storytelling and myriad other problems, including a bizarre reliance on modern dance sequences to interrupt the action.

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06/02/06 06:38 PM
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.

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06/02/06 06:37 PM
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
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Though Mouth to Mouth is a grim movie, it’s far from a hopeless one.

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06/01/06 11:21 AM
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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For all the flaws, its grit and honesty have genuine strength.

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05/27/06 04:18 PM
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium
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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.

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05/27/06 04:11 AM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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so threadbare in offering character motivations and background that it hobbles the performances

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05/20/06 07:59 PM
Jay Antani
Filmcritic.com
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A clear-eyed look at the pleasures and price of abandoning conventional mores for experimental lifestyles.

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05/19/06 04:46 PM
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.

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05/19/06 04:32 PM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Wightman's gradual change from liberated mom to moonie is one of the scariest performances of the year.

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05/19/06 04:26 PM
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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The whole is never quite convincing.

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05/19/06 12:35 AM
New York Magazine
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Worth seeing even if only for Ellen Page's stunning performance.

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05/18/06 07:13 AM
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve
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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 12:49 PM
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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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.

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05/06/06 11:33 AM
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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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.

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05/04/06 07:00 AM
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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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.

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04/26/06 02:13 PM
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
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An uneven, occasionally vivid, ultimately unsatisfactory treatment of themes that should've packed more punch.

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04/25/06 12:44 PM
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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