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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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A walk on the mild side.

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01/01/00
E! Online

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

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John Hartl
John Hartl
Film.com

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01/01/00
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

Its blunt reprocessing of contemporary sacred cows in film realism ... rings false, the work of a user opting out of the imagination business.

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Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh
Film.com

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07/30/03
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

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01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

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

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

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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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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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.

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01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Sichel is just great with her cast.

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02/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Reveals the adolescence most everyone went through (or witnessed) but no one talks about.

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01/01/00
Lea Russo
Lea Russo
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