| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 12, 1990 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews
There are a few piquant ironies at work, but the selling point is Ryder, again doing her coming-of-age turn for the camera, with a performance that wavers between gangling fragility and a tough-girl Matt Dillonism. Otherwise, the movie falls flat, because of its leaden pacing, and because deep down it believes in the moral imperative of having perfect hair and teeth.
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is sweet but dumb and clumsily executed, with its central character overdrawn and undermined, and the adults mostly written off as geeks. What the film needs is some of the troublemaking spunkiness Roxy showed when she left town. [12 Oct 1990, p.30p]
The script resembles an especially anemic Afterschool Special. [12 Oct 1990, p.22]
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael isn't truly terrible, it's truly confused. It's as though director Jim Abrahams wanted to do heartfelt comedy-drama but couldn't quite shake off the wicked edge of his alma mater, ZAZ: Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the dementos behind "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun."
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Issues of forced cuteness aside, the recent Pump Up the Volume did the
alienated-youth bit more insightfully than this movie does. Pump Up the Volume
was savvy enough to have its young hero make statements such as "I say down
with all guidance counselors. Make them work for a living." In Welcome Home,
Roxy Carmichael, the troubled teen's confidante is the school's guidance
counselor.
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