Pin Cushion

Name: Pin Cushion
Genre: Drama
Released: July 20, 2018
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Aury Wayne, Bethany Antonia, Joanna Scanlan, John Henshaw, Lennon Bradley

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Cleopatra Entertainment | Release Date: July 20, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Aury Wayne, Bethany Antonia, Joanna Scanlan, John Henshaw, Lennon Bradley, Lily Newmark, Loris Scarpa, Sacha Cordy-Nice, Saskia Paige Martin, Sophia Tuckey

Summary: Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes "best friends" with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbor. As much as Lyn and IonaSuper close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes "best friends" with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbor. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren't going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won't give Lyn her stepladders back. Both mother and daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.… Expand

Director: Deborah Haywood

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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The Playlist Elazar Fine

Jun 1, 2018

Haywood brilliantly subverts her audience’s expectations at every step of the way. She introduces characters as tropes and steers them into the opposite direction. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Jul 16, 2018

Uneven in places, Pin Cushion nonetheless offers a moving meditation on what it feels like to be different, elevated by great work from Joanna Scanlan and newcomer Lily Newmark. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jul 19, 2018

While Pin Cushion might prove too distressing for some, it’s still peculiarly, undeniably original. Read full review

Katie Rife

Jun 1, 2018

Pin Cushion is as quirky and as prickly as its title, an unclassifiable dramedy about bullying and mother-daughter relationships that proposes that mean-girl behavior doesn’t go away after high school. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Jun 1, 2018

Cinematically, Pin Cushion goes all in on a heightened, macramé-and-macaroons aesthetic that occasionally smothers the rawer nerves of its storytelling. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Jul 19, 2018

Scanlan is stunning as the odd but fiercely loving Lyn. She regards Iona warily, knowingly, seeing into her future and what she’s walking into, but with no way to stop it. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Jul 19, 2018

Pin Cushion has the visual cues of comedy, with its candy-colored kitsch and exaggerated signifiers of eccentricity and snobbery, but at heart, it’s a tragedy of naïveté. Read full review

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bkengland

Aug 7, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What might be most difficult about watching this movie is that it's unrelenting. If there is even a single character who is able and willing to give either of the protagonists even the slightest break, especially when they are treated so abominably over and over, I haven't seen it yet. So it is a bit like watching a running train wreck; horrible to take in, but you just can't look away. One telling moment is when one of the in-group girls says in confidence she'd be different if she didn't live her whole life in the same town. Right. That seems to be the conundrum for all the characters. All stuck in the one town playing their roles in an unending loop with no other option. The worst prospect to consider is that this one town is really a stand-in for the whole world. That said, I must protest: The world isn't 100% this bleak. Especially when bad behavior reaches a certain point, one or more individuals are often compelled to jump in and shout "Now hold on a minute! That will not do!" The reality of this should give us some hope, right?… Expand

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