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06/24/06
Manny & Lo (1996)
65 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 13 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Synopsis: Runaway teenage sisters Manny and Lo have escaped from numerous foster homes, and are accustomed to living on the road. The sisters' lives take a bizarre turn when they kidnap a very strange woman named Elaine, and shack up at an abandoned house in the woods. But when Lo makes a shocking... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Mary Kay Place
Director: Lisa Krueger
Reviews
Top Critic
Its thematic scope stays rather small, and the final third of the movie seems muted and flat.
04/02/03
A sweet little fable, a bit shy on substance but quite charming in the telling.
12/23/02
Oddball charmer about the quirky way certain people are put together just when they need each other most.
08/27/02
Krueger's characters aren't complex enough to sustain a feature film, and her direction is both visually and dramatically listless.
06/05/02
An unapologetically small but wholly original movie, warm-hearted but not precious, and possessed of a gently wacky sensibility.
02/14/01
Top Critic
Grows on you, largely because of the charm of its youngest cast member, Scarlett Johansson.
01/01/00
Yes, it's a movie about life cycles. But it's also quirky enough that it avoids getting bogged down in a predictable reaffirmation of the nuclear family.
01/01/00
With its carefully-modulated combination of light comedy and drama, the film casts a gentle spell.
01/01/00
Top Critic
It is a slight enterprise, not always expert in its construction, but it is sweet without being cloying, and it is sentimental in beneficial ways.
01/01/00
An understated movie that, in turns, is funny and heart-breaking and uplifting.
01/01/00
Though employing no surreal devices and remaining within a realistic convention, Krueger takes the story of two young sisters on their own and somehow makes it seem unreal, strange, outside time.
01/01/00
One of the pleasures of Manny & Lo is the way that it reveals its characters in sudden, unexpected, defining acts.
01/01/00
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