The title suggests a coming-of-age story on some stormy Southeast Asian isle, but this lugubrious parent-child drama actually unfolds on the island of Manhattan, and it's half-baked rather than rain-soaked. And since the dad is even more of a whiny, obnoxious, self-centered brat than his 13-year-old daughter, it's clear that writer-director James Ryan views his characters through a highly self-indulgent lens. The film's one saving grace is 18-year-old Ellen Muth, who gives one of the screen's most natural, non-Hollywood portrayals of a child since... well, since she played the young Jennifer Jason Leigh in DOLORES CLAIBORNE. Here she plays Constance, the pubescent da...
Released:
2001
Rated:
n/a
Length:
90 mins