Seven years after writer-director Mark Christopher's big break,
54, fizzled, he returned with this whimsically melancholy, ultralow-budget, shot-on-digital-video tale of a lonely high-school girl and her night of wonders, courtesy of a 30-year-old slacker. Brainy, obese, socially awkward Cara-Ethyl (Kylie Sparks) — who owes her oddball double name to her squabbling parents' inability to decide whether to name her after actress Irene Cara or
I Love Lucy character Ethyl Mertz — will be 18 in a matter of hours, and if the party her sweet-but-clueless mom, Darlene (Julie Hagerty), has thrown is any indication, Cara-Ethyl's new adult life will be no improvem...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
80 mins