Princess Cyd

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Princess Cyd

Released Nov 3, 2017

1h 36m

Drama

Romance

LGBTQ+

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A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.

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Princess Cyd defies coming-of-age convention to offer a sweetly understated - yet deeply resonant - look at pivotal relationships.

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Mike D'Angelo

AV Club

So many movies are all sizzle and no steak; it's kind of refreshing, in a way, to be frustrated by all steak and no sizzle.

Rated: B-

Jul 20, 2020

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Guy Lodge

Guardian

Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a soft-treading beauty, warm, light and perceptive on fragile questions of feminine sexuality, gender identity and finding your place in your skin.

Jul 20, 2020

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Heather Hogan

Autostraddle

Princess Cyd is quiet almost to the point of stillness and deeply generous. It believes women will heal each other and their communities. It hopes.

Apr 20, 2018

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Rather than watching strife, jealousy, and misaligned comeuppance, "Princess Cyd" crafts prose to show fully blooming truthful and poignant parallels of both independence and interdependence meeting with relatable trepidation giving way to respect.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 23, 2025

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Brendan Cassidy

InSession Film

...if conflict is what you want to avoid, I admire that, and Jessie Pinnick makes it real when it counts...

Rated: B+

Jul 1, 2024

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Michael Cuby

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A sensitive indie that still induces laughs, Princess Cyd is an underrated gem well worth your time.

Sep 26, 2022

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isla s

This is quite a nice film, not too sexual so not especially graphic. I liked the way the friendship built between the two main characters. Its quite dialogue heavy but I liked it. The gay theme is covered in a sensitive way, in that it didn't feel exploitative or anything like that to me. I felt I could relate to the main character a little, in that I could understand her feeling awkward when she stood out. I liked it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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This is a beautifully nuanced portrayal of a sassy young woman contrasted with her slightly pain-in-the-neck, hyper reflective, middle aged aunt. When I watch Steven Cone's films I think I am seeing real people. Having watched his three main films several times - alone and with friends - I can only wait in hope of his next.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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krysten k

in a sea of lgbtq cringe, this is one of the greats.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/06/21

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Audience Member

so subtle and accurate, with complex characters. it made me laugh, it made me think and at some points it almost made me cry!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Pleasant little movie populated by refreshingly nice people, with nary a ne'er-do-well to be seen. With a minor exception, any tension is in there somewhere in coming-of-age bisexuality of two young women and a good-natured generation gap. Spence's character is a writer and literature professor like William Heard in "One True Thing," although a polar opposite: kind, unpretentious and secure. She's given to hosting poetry parties, but those are mercifully short.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Among one of the worst lesbian films I have seen. Atrocious acting and dialogue encompassed with no emotion or feeling between the characters. Just throw in some cliché and painfully awkward/unrealistic moments and slap on some sexual scenes and you have your movie that is mediocre at best.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Synopsis

A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.

Director: Stephen Cone
Producer: Stephen Cone, Madison Ginsberg, Bryan Hart, Grace Hahn
Screenwriter: Stephen Cone
Distributor: Wolfe Releasing
Production Co: Sunroom Pictures
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2017
Runtime: 1h 36m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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