In outline, if not in technique, this darkly disquieting coming-of-age "chick flick" remotely recalls Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA (1960), with its defiantly unresolved story line.
Gena (Aesha Waks), a 16-year-old New Jersey girl, works the summer at a beauty salon. With her mother in a coma and her uncle only a marginal figure, Gena is more or less free to do as she pleases. She counts among her friends a number of adolescent rebels and teen punks. Among them is Jane
Freeman (Summer Phoenix), a chronic delinquent who's just run away from the latest in a series of foster homes, and brings Gena along on her shoplifting and car-stealing escapades. Jane fantasizes a ros...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins