Thought-provoking and mesmerising.
Comment
09/21/07
Stephanie Daley (2007)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 40 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
The premise has all the trappings of melodrama, but the excellent performances give the characters complexity and empathy.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: In STEPHANIE DALEY, Amber Tamblyn and Tilda Swinton turn in remarkable performances as a young girl accused of murdering her infant and the pregnant forensic psychologist assigned to her case. When Stephanie is found trailing blood in the snow on a high school ski trip, the media quickly... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Jim Gaffigan
Director: Hilary Brougher
Screenwriter: Hilary Brougher
Producer: Sean Costello, Doug Dey
Composer: David Mansfield
Screenwriter: Hilary Brougher
Producer: Sean Costello, Doug Dey
Composer: David Mansfield
Reviews
Top Critic
There's a rawness to [it]...it paints slick composition and beautiful, bleeding color on the kind of story about sex and faith that no one has told well in a while.
02/01/08
As joyless as it may be, it's still a brilliant emotional experience.
09/12/07
Filled with emotional pain, it's a perceptive, truthful film interested not in passing judgement, but rather in exploring the truth about relationships, pregnancy and life.
09/03/07
not a great deal that is dramatic happens in the film, but it is that accrual of small details that fleshes out who these people are.
07/14/07
The acting is uniformly on a high level. Tamblyn is impressive, and Swinton, as usual, is outstanding.
06/22/07
Tamblyn's performance is a delicate balancing act; she has to stealthily reveal who Stephanie is to us while still holding back the most vital information until the very end.
06/22/07
It's remarkable how close the director gets to these two characters, and how quietly.
06/22/07
Top Critic
Apart from Swinton's fine performance, what largely distinguishes this is Brougher's sharp narrative focus.
06/01/07
If ever there were a shamelessly preachy attempt to scare teen girls out of having unprotected sex, this is it.
05/03/07
To see Tamblyn's work here, to see her character almost simultaneously embody pain, terror, anguish, embarrassment, regret and just about any emotion you can think of, is to watch the kind of acting the medium exists to provide.
04/27/07
Top Critic
[Director Braugher] does get at something rarely broached in movies: The abject fear that some women experience regarding their impending childbirth. The fear is not an existential one, it's basic -- a fear of physical pain.
04/27/07
With a calmness that bespeaks confidence, this small, spellbinding second feature by Hilary Brougher brings together two women, trapped in separate states of denial and distress, who manage to end each other's entrapment.
04/26/07
Most persuasive as a realist family drama made by a writer-director whose forte is the accretion of quotidian detail that, as much as any crisis, tells us who her characters are.
04/26/07
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