One hundred and nine minutes of drama and not a single moment rings true. Seventeen-year-old Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski) is the kind of teenager only a mother (in this case, Carol Kane) could love. Willfully morose and obsessed with death, black-clad Jennifer has pierced most of her body parts, rings her eyes with a month's worth of eyeliner and lolls about her bedroom penning bad eulogies to herself. She carries around a pair of old opera glasses so she can peer at her surroundings through the wrong end (the all-too-unbearable world looks better that way), comes to the dinner table in black face with a pitted olive on each finger, then upsets her mother and stepfathe...
Released:
2001
Rated:
n/a
Length:
109 mins