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06/24/06
Blue Car (2003)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 69 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus:
A cautionary tale that rings true.
Runtime: 88 mins
Synopsis: Agnes Bruckner delivers an impressive, assured performance with BLUE CAR, an affecting coming-of-age drama from Karen Moncrieff. Bruckner is Meg, a beautiful teenager who is desperate to find inspiration and guidance in her otherwise tumultuous life. At an early age, her father left her... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, Frances Fisher, Regan Arnold
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Screenwriter: Karen Moncrieff
Producer: Peer J. Oppenheimer, Amy Sommer, David Waters
Composer: Adam Gorgoni
Screenwriter: Karen Moncrieff
Producer: Peer J. Oppenheimer, Amy Sommer, David Waters
Composer: Adam Gorgoni
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05/26/06
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...falters because it hews too closely to the witless cant of the average guy as a potential sex criminal.
01/07/05
Though the story is fragile, Bruckner’s superlative acting registers Meg’s feelings with the dead-on accuracy of an emotional geiger counter.
02/09/04
Vivid performances . . . the film's warmly luminous look and the richly rendered view of a troubled but talented teen's struggles with the adult world sustain the film.
12/01/03
Cuts both ways: the poetry and the acting were hot, the story and the cinematography were not so hot.
10/23/03
I found this movie fascinating -- but not an easy one to sit through. It's seems excruciatingly real.
09/27/03
At the film's center Bruckner more than holds her own, beautifully capturing the anger, uncertainty and yearnings of an unhappy kid impatient for her 'real' life to begin.
09/12/03
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07/22/03
Top Critic
Moncrieff, though seemingly incapable of lacing a story with surprises, writes snappy dialogue.
07/18/03
The truest depiction I have ever seen on film of how children grow up with divorced parents. Hollywood blockbuster hype notwithstanding, this is actually the must-see movie of the summer.
07/15/03
Moncrieff grabs us with details and dialogue so authentic ... that she often makes us feel as if we're standing on our toes and peering in the window of one of our neighbors.
07/11/03
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07/02/03
Blue Car boasts great talent in Bruckner, Straithairn and Moncrieff... [but] that talent isn't enough to get over the obstacles in the movie's second half.
07/02/03
borrows heavily from her television soap experience but doesn't collapse totally into the banal
06/27/03
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