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      All She Can

      2011 1h 31m Drama List
      Reviews 44% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Luz, a high-school senior in a small Texas town, cannot go to college unless she wins the State Powerlifting Championship. Read More Read Less

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      Amy Biancolli San Francisco Chronicle Rated: 3/4 Sep 20, 2011 Full Review Rachel Saltz New York Times The movie bucks Hollywood norms without quite knowing what to put in their place. Rated: 1.5/5 Jul 28, 2011 Full Review Diego Semerene Slant Magazine Approaches the coming-of-age story of the Chicana girl unwilling to reproduce "her" culture without putting up a fight developing some unconventional threads. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 26, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A good small budget film with a believable cast. Remarkable that the setting is real, too. The outdoors shots and establishment shots really are in Benavides...same for Alice and the other locations in the script. So many movies with Texas settings are shot an hour north of Hollywood or in Monument Valley, Utah, or somewhere else outside of Texas. While I didn't really expect much out of this film, it certainly exceeded my expectations. There was nothing trite or easily predictable about the script. I'm from the Benavides/Alice area and I swear I know these people. In the end it was an uplifting story with a good lesson in morality. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Ok, it's not "Selena", but I thought it was better than most of the other ratings I've seen. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review walter m By night, Luz(Corina Calderon) works for a fast food restaurant before going off to simultaneously hang out with and ward off the advances of her irresponsible boyfriend Ray(Jeremy Ray Valdez) who himself has to deal with a different kind of unwanted attention from an army recruiter. Luz has some previous expererience with this as her and her family use Skype to communicate with her brother JM(Jaime Medeles) who is serving overseas. By day, she is an honors high school student in her senior year in the small, isolated town of Benavides, Tx. Her high grades sadly do not guarantee her a path to the University of Texas at Austin, as her mother(Leticia Magana) refuses to co-sign any loans for her. So, Luz's path to college might come down to a chance to win a weightlifting scholarship whose first step is a regional tournament. "All She Can" is an endearing character study. Like the movie with its rough edges, Luz is a work in progress, making her fair share of mistakes which the movie thankfully does not judge her for. Plus, the movie neatly sidesteps the usual sports movie cliches in favor of a darker and more political and complex path. I think Luz's mother has a point when she brings up the perils of Luz being burdened by debt after college which is currently a very serious issue for many others. But for Luz, this may be her only opportunity to escape a life that while warm and comforting, does not really give her a chance to breathe. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Good movie, but too many things going on, instead of focusing on main objective. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member The story was a little unexpected, but the ending was great. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member million dollar baby- the boxing+doc=this one Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Luz, a high-school senior in a small Texas town, cannot go to college unless she wins the State Powerlifting Championship.
      Director
      Amy Wendel
      Producer
      Hall Wendel, Todd Barnes
      Screenwriter
      Amy Wendel, Daniel Meisel
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 10, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 31m
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