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In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 7.4 |
Studio : | The Rank Organisation, Toledo Pictures, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Mischa Barton Sam Rockwell Christopher McDonald Kathleen Quinlan Bruce McGill |
Genre : | Drama |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
This film is excellent.But I must warn you, it is hard to understand, at least for me.I watched and was blown away, but still confused by the meaning, then had to use Wikipedia. It merges a dramatic story with politics or rather the society of America.Either way, this film has great acting, is very quirky, and keeps you satisfied throughout.I hope others will give this film some time.Mischa Barton (The O.C.) and Sam Rockwell (Moon) have both gone on to make names of themselves, but this is surely a film from the past that is a gem.
A beautifully made modern day fairy tale that lingers with you long after the credits stop rolling. This movie has it all! The cinematography is breathtaking, the soundtrack is haunting and the writing is superb. Watching this movie is like peeling an onion. Every time you pull back a layer, there's another one underneath. Every time I watch this movie, I learn something new, and as strange as it may sound, I feel like I grow a little more as a person. It is a wonderful little gem of a movie with thousands of tiny details hidden within it waiting to be found. The care with which this movie was made is obvious from beginning to end, overall, a stunning piece of work.
The set up for this film is just weird and off-beat enough to engage fascination without going overboard. The characters are well-observed and presented and the essence of 'don't judge a book by its cover' finely pursued. Sam Rockwell is brilliant. Unfortunately there are deep flaws. The juvenile lead, Mischa Barton, is just OK and is required to deliver some sugary nonsense at the end which her gift for acting is unable to transcend. All in an inexplicable and hurried,'tragical/magical' denouement which utterly ruins the film and the interesting balance it had achieved until that point. Sam Rockwell's character's position is hopeless but wait, 'in a single bound, Jack was free'. Tragic.
It worries me slightly that one or two people saw this as pornographic (I wonder where they get their kicks?)This film is all about an untouchable friendship. It's no accident that the two friends are both gender and age opposites and it's this premise that carries the whole film in a way that never once sees Trent as a predator but finds a kindred spirit.Trent makes it obvious early in the film that he is not interested in the young girl in the way that some viewers found uncomfortable (why? He is seen naked with a girl his own age that surely says he is a normal young man)I can understand why some Americans would prefer not to see themselves in a certain light, but this is the point of the movie.See it, and be a better person. Yes, it's that good.