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All Over Me

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All Over Me (1997)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:21

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: ALL OVER ME is an intense, naturalistic portrait of a changing friendship between two teenage girls, set in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen. The symbiotic, loving relationship between riot-grrrl... ALL OVER ME is an intense, naturalistic portrait of a changing friendship between two teenage girls, set in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen. The symbiotic, loving relationship between riot-grrrl teens Ellen and Claude degrades after Ellen begins dating a rough-hewn, mean-spirited older boy, and Claude tries on a lesbian identity with the help of a new gay male friend. The movie is suffused with alternative music-scene bit parts and cameos, including Leisha Hailey (of the Murmurs) and Mary Timony (of Helium). [More]

Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser

Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Shawn Hatosy, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz, Pat Briggs, Leisha Hailey, Mary Timony

Director: Alex Sichel

Director: Alex Sichel
Screenwriter: Sylvia Sichel

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Though the main charcater is lesbian, Sichel's gritty youth melodrama is so rich in ideas amd so roght in its texture that it goes beyond a coming-out ot even a lesbian-themed story.

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06/29/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
Variety
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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality

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07/28/05
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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07/30/03
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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02/05/03
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

This picture should be required viewing for all teens.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

Given great lyrical force by Folland, it comes closer to unlocking the secret lives of girls than any other recent American movie.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
10/03/02
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
L.A. Weekly

Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
01/09/02
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Movieline

Sichel is just great with her cast.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A walk on the mild side.

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01/01/00
E! Online

I do think the Sichels got right much of the awkwardness of teenage transitions into adulthood and of the comfort girls find in the company of other equally confused and hormonally distressed girls.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

Sichel strips her story to the essential, offering a film that's tough, compassionate and true.

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01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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01/01/00
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

Part of the reason All Over Me possesses such a stark sense of realism is because of the keenly-observed, unaffected performances of the lead actors.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

A confident first feature.

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01/01/00
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Alex and Sylvia Sichel have taken a familiar coming-of-age story, something that might work as an Afterschool Special, and given it the contour, grit and white-hot energy of something much more.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Less successful at portraying indecision than it is at inducing boredom.

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01/01/00
John Hartl
John Hartl
Film.com
 
 
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