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      As Cool as I Am

      R Released Jun 7, 2013 1 hr. 32 min. Comedy Drama List
      14% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 25% 500+ Ratings Audience Score A precocious teen (Sarah Bolger) has a sexual awakening and later begins to realize that her parents' (Claire Danes, James Marsden) marriage is not as strong as she thought. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member What an amazing coming-of-age story: bright, funny, sad, intelligent and well-acted. Movies like this give more than entertainment. They give us humanity, more aliveness. Great characters, plot, and a refreshing script. Bravo! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I saw it in long time ago Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A Cool kind, but suddenly feeling the real life pressure! Another teen comedy-drama, precisely to say a coming-of-age theme based on the novel of the same name. It is not from the big production house, but the well known faces make it a worth a watch and their performances were too not bad. The tale of a teen tomboy girl Lucy, whose father visits home often who works in Canada and her mother is an easy going type. It's about a time for her sexual exploration and the first choice is her best buddy Kenny. But quickly the things around changes which forces her to opt the life she wants and what follows is how it all shapes up before bringing a curtain to the narration. I felt like wanting to give it a better rating, at least it deserves a decent respect, but narration had lots of up and down. That does not matter, even for how a tale begins, but the ending should have been a better one where I slightly disappointed with it. Sarah Bolger looked solid, totally one man show you could say. Maybe that is how the story was designed, but that did not stand a chance to impress me, because I thought it leaned excessively on her alone leaving other characters less developed. Anyway, it could also be said like this that it was her story which lacked the good support. It is not just a coming-of-age film, but when you look at how the story ends, that's kind of self-discovery. Maybe the girl was caught between the teenhood and adulthood, especially in the climax it leaped forward too long. The hardest part is the R rating for a teen film, though there were none nudes, even in the sex scenes, but the film topic itself highly influenced by those like experiencing and moving-on in the life. So the film is not worth going after for a watching by someone's recommendation, only when you get an opportunity without much options you could try it. 5.5/10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member pretty cool coming to age and all that it involved including cooking, kissing and discovering self worth. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member I give this a D+( 68). Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review brendan n Badly written film, the performances are all over the place. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Ben Sachs Chicago Reader This coming-of-age drama might trade in familiar narrative developments, but its characterization is rather nuanced. Jun 27, 2013 Full Review Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News Simplistic plotting, pedestrian visuals and poorly-handled melodrama do lend the project a cheap, made-for-TV feel, which is underscored by the fact that Danes and Marsden don't seem obliged to turn in their best work. Rated: 2/5 Jun 7, 2013 Full Review Kyle Smith New York Post Oh no: Claire Danes as the mom? Already? What's next, Chelsea Clinton for president? Rated: 1/4 Jun 7, 2013 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews The familiarity of the narrative - the movie does, after all, include such coming-of-age touchstones as first love and irresponsible parents - grows more and more problematic as time progresses... Rated: 2/4 Feb 10, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A precocious teen (Sarah Bolger) has a sexual awakening and later begins to realize that her parents' (Claire Danes, James Marsden) marriage is not as strong as she thought.
      Director
      Max Mayer
      Executive Producer
      David McFadzean, Dete Meserve, Ginger Sledge
      Screenwriter
      Virginia Korus Spragg
      Distributor
      IFC Films
      Production Co
      Identity Films, Wind Dancer Productions
      Rating
      R (Some Teen Drinking|Sexual Content|An Assault)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 7, 2013, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 5, 2016
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