Offbeat and compelling neo-noir.
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02/11/08
Poison Ivy (1992)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:11
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 3 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Lonely teen Sylvie Cooper befriends sexy schoolmate Ivy and watches as Ivy moves into her home and slowly takes over the Cooper family. A little girl gone bad, she seduces Sylvie's father and... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cheryl Ladd, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert
Director: Katt Shea Ruben, Andy Ruben
Reviews for Poison Ivy
Top CriticIts willingness to take risks, and its insights into the frailties and confusions of teenage friendships, lift the film right out of the rut.
06/24/06
Top CriticAmbiguous and intriguing.
02/11/08
Top CriticPoison Ivy strikes a pleasing balance between emotion and ambiguity.
02/11/08
Top CriticNo review available.
02/09/05
Shea's arty-trashy exploitation film is an amalgam of Fatal Attraction, Stepfather, and Pasolini's Teorema, in all of which the order of a middle-class is disrupted by a deparved interloper, well played here by the sexy Drew Barrymore as a modern Lolita
10/09/06
Sinsiter and savvy psychodrama
07/18/03
No review available.
09/23/05
Why settle for the usual walk around the exploitation block when Shea offers a wild ride with the top down into uncharted territory?
05/12/01
If Drew Barrymore hadn't been so good at being bad, then this truly would have been bad. But luckily, she was good--and so it's decent. You got all that?
09/24/02
...so over the top it can hardly be taken seriously.
01/01/00
No review available.
10/11/02
Aanybody hoping to be titillated by it will almost certainly be terribly disappointed.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/22/04
For the most part the actors' work seems incomplete because their characters are cut off before they can fully blossom.
01/01/00
Sleazy teen thriller isn't as much fun as it should be
06/26/03
Drew Barrymore stars in a melodrama that borders on high-class kiddie porn.
02/11/08
Grab the calamine lotion, quick.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/14/05
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