This remarkable debut feature from director Alex Sichel and her sister, screenwriter Sylvia Sichel, is one of the few movies in recent years in which the teen angst really
feels like teen angst. Allison Folland, who made a stunning debut in TO DIE FOR,
stars as Claude, a heavy-set 15-year-old high school student living in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan with her single mom (nicely played by Ann Dowd). Claude's in love with her best friend, Ellen (Tara Subkoff), an underweight, emotionally fragile waif with a burgeoning heroin habit and
an abusive boyfriend, Mark (Cole Hauser). When Ellen heads out for an evening with Mark, Claude heads straight for t...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins