borrows heavily from her television soap experience but doesn't collapse totally into the banal
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06/27/03
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
Reviews for Blue Car
...leaves Strathairn's possible predator frustratingly out of focus.
06/19/03
There's nothing particularly original about the plotline, but the execution is pretty good and may be enough to keep you in your seat.
06/14/03
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
Worth watching for the coming-out party of Agnes Bruckner, a relative newcomer who shows her mettle with an extraordinary performance in this very ordinary tear-jerker.
06/12/03
An impressive first effort from Ms. Moncrieff, but the eternal Aristotelian in me finds it depressing to watch characters always walking around in moral quicksand.
06/11/03
It's an incredibly strong debut reinforced by astonishingly good performances by all the principals.
06/08/03
An affecting look at one talented girl's efforts to survive in a world of confused and selfish adults.
05/30/03
A well-intentioned coming-of-age film anchored by two indelible performances but weakened by an overabundance of drama.
05/30/03
The film is strengthened by the two leading performances.
05/28/03
We've seen this unhappy scenario played out many times before, but seldom with a better eye for detail.
05/23/03
Certainly no feel-good flick of the summer. But it's always tough and honest.
05/23/03
It's rare that a movie makes a viewer experience the psychodynamics of an encounter so profoundly -- usually theater is a better medium for that -- but Moncrieff has exceptional skills.
05/23/03
The strength of the movie -- which makes sure to show the pressures its characters face, so that all of them are weak but none of them is a villain -- is its recognition of the strength within Meg.
05/23/03
A diverting study in the rolling disaster of adolescence, gathering speed and danger as it goes.
05/23/03
The story is so well-acted and honestly written that after a while it stops bothering us that we know where it's going.
05/23/03
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
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05/23/03
Top CriticIncorporates every stereotype of 'sensitivity' and 'angst' without ever approaching a genuine emotion.
05/22/03
It's a writer-director's important debut and a giant leap to leading roles for a brave actress.
05/22/03
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