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06/14/03
Blue Car (2003)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:69
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: A cautionary tale that rings true.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, Frances Fisher
Director: Karen Moncrieff
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10/24/02
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06/24/06
Top CriticThe film raises predictability to new levels.
10/29/02
Intimate, honest, if occasionally contrived.
05/01/03
We've seen this unhappy scenario played out many times before, but seldom with a better eye for detail.
05/23/03
Karen Moncrieff's evocation of the awkward, clashing relationships... and her clear-eyed look at the idealization of an inspirational teacher by a student in need of a daddy have an unsettlingly honest feel.
05/16/03
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
It's an incredibly strong debut reinforced by astonishingly good performances by all the principals.
06/08/03
Blue Car is a beautifully crafted and well-acted drama about the tug and pull of yearning in the lives of a tormented young eighteen-year-old poet and her high school English teacher.
05/01/03
It's that central dance between teacher and student that makes the movie both hard to watch and worth your attention -- a subtle waltz of power in which it's difficult to tell who's leading until too late.
05/23/03
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
A cozy, well-made vehicle without the capacity to carry everything that writer-director Karen Moncrieff piles into it.
05/02/03
For the most part, Blue Car succeeds in fulfilling Meg's assignment to 'touch the hidden nerve.'
05/15/03
When Meg looks mournfully over a box of scattered pictures (lighting the corners of her mind, no doubt), Blue Car, already maudlin, suddenly and terrifyingly becomes Purple Rain.
10/18/02
Blue Car may not be in the category of a classic, but it's certainly not a total wreck (more like a fixer-upper that's serviceable).
05/02/03
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
A valuable cautionary tale.
05/16/03
Top CriticThe performances here top-notch across the board.
07/29/02
Moncrieff (who studied acting) has such a fine cast that she makes the nuances come together as the portrait of a brief, piercing time in peoples' lives.
06/13/03
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