Dandelion

Name: Dandelion
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 7, 2005
Rating: 63

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International Film Circuit | Release Date: October 7, 2005 | R

Summary: In his feature debut, director/co-writer Mark Milgard delivers a powerfully authentic look at young love and a poetic exploration of how love - romantic, filial, platonic - frees and heals. (Ruth Pictures)

Director: Mark Milgard

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

First-time director Mark Milgard displays enormous promise and a surprisingly sensitive touch with this beautifully rendered tragedy. Read full review

Scott Foundas

A perceptive character drama both delicate and tragic. Read full review

Brad Slager

The two young leads--Vincent Kartheiser and Taryn Manning--bring a sense of reality to their roles. This combines with Milgard’s direction and choice of backdrops to make Dandelion an unassuming journey. Read full review

Joshua Land

Atmosphere trumps plot throughout, enabling the movie to survive an unfortunate, if inevitable, final-act turn. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Like its troubled protagonists, Mark Milgard's ultra-sensitive ode to adolescent angst is equal parts earnest and awkward. Should you happen to be a 15-year-old girl, you'll adore it. Read full review

Stephen Holden

So much care has been taken to build a mood of hushed suspense that the rushed, tragic conclusion, in which too little is shown and too little explained, leaves you deeply unsatisfied. Read full review

Kyle Smith

It's easy to spot a failed tearjerker, though: All the characters are sobbing all over each other while the people in the audience check their watches. Read full review

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ChadS.

May 16, 2006

"Dandelion" is a little like Hillary Birmingham's "Tully", but unrelentingly sad. If it wasn't for the filmmaker's predilection for pointing his camera towards nature, this indie weepie would be intolerable. [***SPOILERS***] Early in the film, Mason(Vincent Kartheiser) goes "Dandelion" is a little like Hillary Birmingham's "Tully", but unrelentingly sad. If it wasn't for the filmmaker's predilection for pointing his camera towards nature, this indie weepie would be intolerable. [***SPOILERS***] Early in the film, Mason(Vincent Kartheiser) goes to jail for his old man, and the mystery surrounding this sacrifice is what may very well keep the audience from nodding off for the remaining hour. Kartheiser is still another actor who obviously studied Johnny Depp's early film work, which is in essence, be a sympathetic and likable mute. And sure enough, Mason is sympathetic and likable.… Expand

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