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      Teenage Doll

      Released Sep 18, 1957 1h 8m Crime Drama List
      Reviews 33% Audience Score 50+ Ratings After killing a member of a teenage gang in a fight over her boyfriend, a girl seeks the protection of his gang. Read More Read Less

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The only thing enjoyable about this dumb 1950s juvenile delinquent exploitation film was in how it was so crass. Rated: C Apr 22, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member This is a fun Corman film, it's about juvenile delinquents, a girl gang to be specific. This movie is both realistic and at the same time exploitative. It's really interesting, and one of my favourite Corman movies. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member The title line above is from a movie poster for Roger Corman's "Teenage Doll", about a female street gang. Another poster for it reads: "Too Young to Be Careful... Now It's Too Late to Say 'No'." It's a decent flick ostensibly about how the breakdown of society and the family unit fuels teenage rebellion and leads to gangs and crime. Or whatever. Really it's about hot chicks and flashy violence. The "socially redeeming value" part is just some crap you stick in there to try and fool the censors, and maybe a couple critics. And Corman was/is brilliant at it. But he might not be a match for Larry Clark, maker of "Kids", "Gummo", and "Bully", the last of which I just watched today. Corman's movies played in drive-ins and dive theaters; Clark's films play in the art houses. Both "Kids" and "Bully" (and to a lesser extent "Gummo", which was actually kind of about it's characters, and actually kind of rad) are about teenagers set adrift by complacent middle-class parents into a world all their own filled with drugs and kicks and many, many, many shots of Chloe Sevingy and Rachel Miner completely naked. And of course, how could one even begin to illustrate the complex, dystopian lives of pleasure-hungry rejects from the consumer superstructure without lots of bouncing tits and firm young asses? Checkmate, MPAA. The only real difference between Corman's earliest work and Clark's is that forty or so years have gone by. You can get away with more ass in a movie now, but you've got to be sneakier. You can't just stick a lascivious headline on a pulpy looking poster and call it a day. Now you need to base you movie on a "true" (or even a "really, really true") story (like "Bully") or add a warning to parents like at the beginning of "Kids". (Parents, of course, were the primary target audience for that movie. Uh-huh. Yeah.) I've known kids as dumb as the ones in Clark's movies, kids whose only interests were the fullfillment of lusts, who seemed more animal than human in their single-minded determination to be high and laid at all times. I might be tempted to say that they were too boring to make a movie about, but of course everyone has their story. Some critics seem to think that Larry Clark is telling it, which is the only thing I'm objecting to. If you want to see a good art movie about immoral stoners who kill somebody, watch "The River's Edge". If you want to see Brad Renfro humping about a million times, watch "Bully". Or, as my friend Ross is always saying about movies like this, you could just rent a porno. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis After killing a member of a teenage gang in a fight over her boyfriend, a girl seeks the protection of his gang.
      Director
      Roger Corman
      Producer
      Roger Corman
      Screenwriter
      Charles B. Griffith
      Distributor
      Allied Artists Pictures, Englewood Entertainment [us]
      Production Co
      Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 18, 1957, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 12, 2006
      Runtime
      1h 8m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.37:1)