Some Freaks

Released Aug 4, 2017

1h 37m

Comedy

Drama

Romance

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One-eyed high school senior Matt meets plus size Jill and falls more in love than he ever thought possible. However, when graduation comes and Jill moves cross-country to go to college, she undergoes a major physical transformation. When Matt struggles to accept Jill's new look, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she thought she knew. As the distance widens between them, the characters are forced to confront who they were, and who everyone thinks they're supposed to be.

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Miserable people who are violent, homophobic, and sexist. None seem to transform themselves nor learn any lessons of compassion or self love.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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It's painfully obvious that the critics who've reviewed this movie are primarily in the 35+ crowd, and I'll explain why. The depiction of high school is ridiculously unrealistic. Not only in the way that no staff ever seem present, no rules ever enforced, no one ever actually *doing* something...but also in the idea that a high school in 2017 would consider the main character grotesquely overweight. She's pretty chubby, or might I say "thicc." But not worth moo-ing at. Not to mention the characteristic that makes her a so-called "freak" is her weight alone. It's 2017...a year in which numerous Americans are obese and yet healthy lifestyle is trendy and picking up pace. Being a heavyset teenager isn't out of the norm, certainly a far cry from "freakish." The gay character Elmo is a whole other set of writing problems. His character is basically "the annoyingly loud, socially-inept nerd" but gay...most definitely written by someone who has never met a gay man before. His character doesn't make any sense; boring at best and pretentious (on behalf of the writers) at worst. His character serves almost no real purpose in the plot, except for to ruin the ending of the movie. Which, by the way, is absolutely horrible. And Matt is, for the most part, an unremarkable character. However, where this movie fails in it's completely unsatisfactory ending and bizarre depiction of youth, it excels in portraying *emotion* The conflicts between the characters feel organic, passionate, and almost tangible. The movie tackles selfishness and entitlement in a fiery, entertaining manner. A lot of this is due to the skill of the actors. While I couldn't care less for the movie as a whole, there are definitely certain scenes I could stand to watch again. Or certain bits of dialogue worth hearing again.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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To me, the movie was way to boring and the how the movie was filmed was not interesting at all, I understand that the movie's aim was probably to raise awareness on bullying, self-esteem, body shaming and accepting urself and others. but i feel like it was poorly executed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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What a nice surprise. An original Netflix movie that deals with growing up in a real way. Thomas Mann gives a wonderful, as usual, performance and everyone delivers the depth needed about how peoples unique qualities actually make them more functional in the real world.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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storyline was choppy and ending made me. mad.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/23/17

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A great film about what it is like to be different in high school and bullied for it. Despite trying to make changes to fit in the characters realise that it is harder than they think. Lily May Harrington is amazing in this heartbreaking coming of age film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/20/17

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Ian MacAllister McDonald

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Thomas Mann

Matt

Lily Mae Harrington

Jill

Ely Henry

Elmo Moss

Marin Ireland

Georgia

Lachlan Buchanan

Patrick

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John DeFore

Hollywood Reporter

Ian MacAllister McDonald's Some Freaks captures high school/college agony without transmuting it into thank-God-we-survived-it nostalgia.

Aug 4, 2017

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

Some Freaks explores the way in which those who are teased and tortured for being different can turn on other outsiders, and the emotional trauma of that poisonous isolation.

Aug 4, 2017

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

All the actors are good, but Harrington is remarkable. It's not just the physical changes in her character, but the genuineness with which she inhabits her.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 3, 2017

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood.

Aug 11, 2017

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Kenji Fujishima

Paste Magazine

The deeper Some Freaks wades into what becomes a series of sadistic and masochistic humiliations, the more McDonald's film begins to feel schematic.

Rated: 6/10

Aug 4, 2017

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Budd Wilkins

Film Journal International

The psychological acuity with which [director Ian MacAllister-McDonald] delineates his characters more than makes up for [the film's] relatively minor lapses.

Aug 4, 2017

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Synopsis

One-eyed high school senior Matt meets plus size Jill and falls more in love than he ever thought possible. However, when graduation comes and Jill moves cross-country to go to college, she undergoes a major physical transformation. When Matt struggles to accept Jill's new look, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she thought she knew. As the distance widens between them, the characters are forced to confront who they were, and who everyone thinks they're supposed to be.

Director: Ian MacAllister McDonald
Producer: Monica Aguirre Diez Barroso, Neil LaBute, Nancy Nayor, Alan Pao
Screenwriter: Ian MacAllister McDonald
Distributor: Good Deed Entertainment
Production Co: Good Deed Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 4, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 4, 2017
Runtime: 1h 37m

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