Virgin

Writer-director Deborah Kampmeier's rough-edged but affecting drama revolves around an unworldy 17-year-old and the brutal consequences of her rebellion against the strict religious mores of her family and neighbors. The cracks in the small-town Reynolds family's facade are apparent there long before bad-girl Jesse (Elisabeth Moss, of TV's The West Wing) starts drinking, smoking, shoplifting and refusing to pay lip so much as lip service to the Baptist beliefs of her parents and straight-laced younger sister, Katie (Stephanie Gatchet). Mr. Reynolds (Peter Gerety) is covering his affair with another woman by claiming to attend frequent religious conferences; Mr...