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Phase 4 Films | Release Date: December 19, 2014

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Ratings

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MelancholicAlcMar 8, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ***SPOILERS!!!!!***

This movie is marked by cowardice. This what you get if you get a former Disney princess like Robertson to be the lead: She's not a bad actress, but neither is she very impressive. She doesn't take risks. This is not surprising from someone who comes from a very conservative, North Carolina, seven children household. Nowhere is this gutlessness more symbolic in Robertsons stingy blink-and-you'll-miss-it nude shots (can't hardly call them 'scenes') which come to a sum total of 5.214 seconds in a 1:38:41 movie or 0,0881%. for fast arithmeticers and yes, the first nude shot is even in a shady darkened room, even. At 23, one expects a girl wanting to shed the Disney image to be braver. Her only female friend, played by Gia Mantegna, who is one day older than her, almost seems braver in that she does do a full frontal, but it is fully out of focus, so no.

The whole movie is like that, a parade of almost but not quite. Near the end of the movie, we keep thinking, oh, this is totally gonna be a Disney ending of life lessons well learned, etc. There's even a chance that for the The First TIme Ever in American Cinema, an abortion would be described as something positive as something necessary and totally normal for American women to do. But alas, the writer lacked the courage to make a stand, takes the fifth on the whole abortion thing by pulling a completely unrealistic grim ending out of her butt. Think the Vanishing, but with the ending of the orginal Dutch film.
It's clear that she wanted to have a Fight Club twist ending, but failed utterly. Instead we get this spineless, gutless "I-know-I-should-get-an-abortion-but-I'm-too-yelly-belly-to-say-so-out-loud" escape trick.
It was as if the writer thought: "Yes, I know abortion is the only way to end this movie with some bravery, but hey let's go with the Silence of the Lambs stuff because that will get me less criticism from the folks back in Idaho." In this, she's not wrong. ReichWing red staters scream bloody murder (literally) when it comes to abortion, but when it comes to kidnapping, raping and murdering young women ... that's just life, let's by all means shrug that off. This movie SEEMS edgy, but in fact is FAKE edgy. Lifetime/Hallmark movies are more sincere, at least there you KNOW it's crap. and they don't pretend to be otherwise. In this, it's exactly as gutless like Juno, only with a more bland lead.
I hope Robertson will be braver next time, as in going against the establishment of Thou Shalt Never Commit Abortion in Hollywood Movies, but I kind of doubt it. She will get good reviews for this one, since tout Hollywood shares this movies lily-liveredness. The days of "liberal media" are long gone, if they ever existed. She's not the next Sarah Polley or Michelle Williams. She's more like a poor man's Chloe Moretz. Very, very poor man.… Expand

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