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Audience Member Whatever is a "coming of age" movie where we follow a seventeen year old art student named Anna through maybe the most important period of her life. Anna is a very smart young girl who are more sensitive and sweet inside than she let's others see. She's also in an age where she is ready to experience, both with drugs and sex and we get to follow her while she experiences these things for the first time. Anna gets totally exposed in this movie. We see her faulty home life with a mother who puts herself above her. We see how she react to first love and also how far she is willing to go for her friendship with her lost cause of a friend - Brenda. We see her insecurities in herself, mostly shown by her not giving everything she can with her work and studies even though she is clearly smart and talented enough. We also see her flaws and mistakes she makes. Brenda - her friend, is also a well built character. Grown up in an abusive home and not as bright as Anna, she is headed for the wrong path in life. And it's these two characters that makes the movie together with it's very honest and realistic approach. Even though the movie is set in probably early 80's it's still a movie that is very relevant today and I find it quite shocking that it's not a more known movie than it is. Even though it's flaws (not all of the other characters are as good as the main two) it's a very well made movie. It's also easy to see that it's directed by a woman, especially with sexual scenes which shows the girls point of view instead of the regular way of doing those scenes. I'm equally surpised to see that the director, Susan Skoog, never did another movie after this. All in all it's a honest, characterdriven drama that I'd have no problems recommending to anybody. I'd give it an 8 outta 10. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member An indecisive Anna can't decide to keep pursuing her love of painting or her self destructive behavior with her best friend Brenda. Released in 1998, it's suppose to be set in the 1980's, but it's hard to tell between that decade and, well, the one we're already in. It's not a bad indie pic with some good acting from Liza Well, as Anna. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member very realistic teen movie... the sex is not sexyyyyyy, unless you are into....vomit : x Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Down & Dirty is a lot like Kurosawa's Dodesukaden. I really must say something about it at some point. So I added a few more. I'm sure I'll do a short review thing for each one later. No question about it. Kinda tricky because if I add more then the oldest ones move on to the next page without me having a chance to say anything. Mmm...the biggest surprise here was [b]White Oleander[/b], which I honestly expected to be total crap. It still kinda escapes me why it wasn't. A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl....I mean, come on! If that's not the very definition of crap then I don't know what is. And apparently I don't. I didn't know Mel Brooks had made good films until I saw [b]Producers. [/b]The fat guy in the leading role(who did a wonderful job by the way) somehow reminded me of the fat guy in the leading role in [b]Witness For the Prosecution[/b], which I want to mention because it got buried somewhere in the previous page. Anyway, that fat guy was fabulous! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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